North Korean President, Kim Jong Un has missed one of the
country’s most important events, as he receives treatment after cardiovascular
surgery earlier this month, Al Jazeera reports.
Speculation mounts over the state of Kim’s health following
his absence as North Korea marked the anniversary of the birthday of its
founding father and Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, as a national holiday on
April 15.
There was no sign of Kim in the pictures shared by the State
news agency.
Al Jazeera quoted Daily NK, a speciality website run mostly
by North Korean defectors, as citing unidentified sources inside the isolated
state saying Kim was recovering at a villa in the Mount Kumgang resort after
undergoing the procedure on April 12 at a hospital there.
Reporting from inside North Korea is notoriously difficult,
especially on matters concerning the country’s leadership.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles
inter-Korean affairs, declined to comment on the report, according to Al
Jazeera.
The President is heavily overweight and his health has
deteriorated in recent months due to heavy smoking and overwork, according to
the report.
“My understanding is that he had been struggling (with
cardiovascular problems) since last August but it worsened after repeated
visits to Mount Paektu,” a source was quoted as saying, referring to the
country’s sacred mountain.
Kim went into hospital after presiding over a meeting of the
ruling Workers’ Party’s Politburo on April 11, his last major public event, the
report said.
Pyongyang fired multiple short-range missiles last week
which Seoul officials said were also part of the Kim Il Sung birthday
celebration. Such military events would usually be observed by Kim, but there
was no KCNA report on the test at all.
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