{"id":206050,"date":"2020-04-21T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T07:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206050"},"modified":"2020-04-23T07:38:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T07:38:18","slug":"is-kim-jong-un-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206050","title":{"rendered":"Is Kim Jong Un in critical condition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in grave danger after a surgery says a US official with direct knowledge.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Kim&#8217;s alleged turn for the worse comes after he recently missed the celebration of his grandfather&#8217;s birthday on April 15, raising speculation about his health<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The 36-year-old &#8216;Supreme Leader&#8217; had been last seen four days before that at a government meeting<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Kim had been receiving treatment after undergoing a cardiovascular procedure early this month<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>He was recovering at a villa in the Mount Kumgang resort county of Hyangsan on the east coast after getting the procedure on April 12 at a hospital there<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ralph R. Ortega \u2013 Daily Mail.com \u2013 April 21, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_206052\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kim-Yo-Jong-and-Kim-JongUn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206052\" class=\"wp-image-206052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kim-Yo-Jong-and-Kim-JongUn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kim-Yo-Jong-and-Kim-JongUn.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kim-Yo-Jong-and-Kim-JongUn-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-206052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Yo Jong (left) and Kim Jong-Un (right). Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Fears were growing for\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/kim_jong_un\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kim Jong-un<\/span><\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s health today after a US official said the dictator could be in &#8216;grave danger&#8217; after heart surgery &#8211; although South Korea has played down the reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Washington is monitoring intelligence that Kim is in a critical condition after his operation, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/04\/20\/politics\/kim-jong-un-north-korea\/index.html\"><strong>CNN <\/strong><\/a><\/span>quoted an unnamed US official as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Kim, 36, was last seen at a government meeting on April 11, and was mysteriously absent from the celebration of his late grandfather Kim Il-Sung&#8217;s birthday on April 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Daily NK, an outlet run mostly by North Korean defectors, said Kim had undergone a cardiovascular procedure and was recovering at a villa in North Phyongan province<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is unclear what would happen next if fears that Kim is &#8216;incapacitated or worse&#8217; prove correct, but his sister Kim Yo-jong is among the senior politicians who could be in line to take control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">South Korea has today played down the fears over Kim&#8217;s health, saying that &#8216;no special movement has been detected inside North Korea&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The South&#8217;s Yonhap news agency cited an unnamed government official saying that reports Kim was seriously ill were &#8216;not true&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The North has imposed even tighter restrictions than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic &#8211; although it claims to have no case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Continues \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8239261\/North-Korean-leader-Kim-Jong-grave-danger-heart-surgery.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8239261\/North-Korean-leader-Kim-Jong-grave-danger-heart-surgery.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dictator, 36, reportedly &#8216;in grave danger after heart surgery&#8217; as North Korea fights coronavirus &#8211; and his sister could be in next line to take control<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206053,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206050\/revisions\/206053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}