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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reappears with walking stick

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 14 October, 2014, 8:52am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 14 October, 2014, 9:53am

Agence France-Presse in Seoul

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This picture taken from North Korean paper Rodong Sinmun on October 14, 2014 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Photo: AFP

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has resurfaced after an unexplained and prolonged absence that fuelled rampant speculation about his health and even rumours of a coup in the nuclear-armed state.

State media on Tuesday reported that Kim, who had not been seen in public for nearly six weeks, made an inspection tour of a newly-built housing complex in Pyongyang.

The front-page of the ruling party Rodong newspaper was mostly taken up with a large portrait of a smiling Kim, photographed from the waist upwards.

The daily carried smaller, full-length photos showing Kim leaning on a black walking stick in his left hand as he toured the complex built for scientists working on North Korea’s satellite programme.

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The front=page of the Rodong Sinmun on Tuesday.

“Looking over the exterior of the apartment houses and public buildings, decorated with diverse coloured tiles, [Kim] expressed great satisfaction, saying they looked very beautiful,” the official KCNA news agency said.

KCNA did not specify the date of the visit, but the agency usually reports such events the day after.

It also made no mention of Kim’s absence from the public eye and offered no insight into his physical wellbeing.

Kim, believed to be 30 or 31, dropped out of sight after attending a music concert with his wife in Pyongyang on September 3.

While there is precedent for a North Korean leader to “disappear” for a while, the absence was more noticeable with Kim, who has maintained a particularly pervasive media presence since coming to power after the death of his father Kim Jong-il in 2011.

Competing theories for his disappearance ranged widely from an extended rest period to a leadership coup, via a long list of possible illnesses and ailments including broken ankles, gout and diabetes.

The rumours multiplied after Kim failed to attend a major political anniversary event on Friday, at which other top leaders were present.

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This picture taken from North Korean paper Rodong Sinmun on October 14, 2014 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Photo: AFP

The only mention of a possible health problem came in a state television documentary several weeks ago which spoke of Kim’s “discomfort”.

A heavy smoker, Kim has shown striking weight gain since coming to power following the death of his father in 2011, and recent television footage had shown him walking with a pronounced limp.

“It’s still not clear how much he has recovered from the apparent ‘discomfort’ or how serious it was,” said Kim Yeon-chul, a North Korea expert at Inje University in Gimhae, South Korea.

“The important thing is that this really corroborates observations by South Korea, China and the United States that Kim is ruling normally,” Kim said.

Given the supreme importance of the leadership of the Kim family dynasty in North Korea, there had been speculation that a further extended absence might lead to a period of instability.

His reappearance followed a rare exchange of heavy machine-gun fire over the inter-Korean border on Friday, triggered by the North Korean military seeking to shoot down some leaflet-laden balloons launched by South Korean anti-Pyongyang activists.

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This picture taken from North Korean paper Rodong Sinmun on October 14, 2014 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Photo: AFP

Kim was accompanied on his visit to the residential complex by several top officials including Hwang Pyong-so, the vice-chairman of the powerful National Defence Commission who is widely seen as Kim’s number two.

Hwang was the leader of a top-ranking North Korean delegation that made a surprise visit to the South just over a week ago.

The rare visit, which resulted in an agreement to resume a suspended high-level dialogue, was seen by some as a message that all was normal in Pyongyang.

The delegation brought a goodwill message from Kim, and one of its members insisted the young leader had no health issues.


 

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N.Korea Also Sends Propaganda Leaflets to S.Korea

chosun.com / Oct. 14, 2014 09:47 KST

North Korea has also regularly flown propaganda leaflets to South Korea until recently using helium balloons.

Saenuri Party lawmaker Sohn In-chun on Monday said data he obtained from the Defense Ministry show that the South retrieved around 30,000 propaganda leaflets the North flew across the border using helium balloons over the last three years.

 

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N. Korean leader treated by 'foreign doctors': S. Korean envoy

2014/10/14 15:58

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BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who has made his first public appearance in five weeks, has been treated by "foreign doctors" because of an apparent leg injury, the South Korean ambassador to China said Tuesday.

North Korea's state media on Tuesday made its first reports of public activity by Kim in more than 40 days, showing photos of the leader with a walking stick.

Kim "was suffering from problems in his leg and foreign doctors visited North Korea to treat him," Kwon Young-se told lawmakers during an annual parliamentary audit on the South Korean Embassy in Beijing.

"To my knowledge, North Korean officials had also visited some foreign countries to get consultations about his treatment," Kwon said, citing information he obtained.

Kim had been absent from public view since Sept. 3, and the North Korean media have unusually acknowledged that he was suffering from bodily "discomfort."

Kim missed a key national event celebrating the founding of the ruling Worker's Party of Korea on Friday with high-level party and military officials, fueling speculation about his health.

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About 7,000 N. Koreans work in Chinese border cities: diplomat

2014/10/14 16:47

BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Yonhap) -- About 7,000 North Koreans are estimated to be working in China's border cities with the North, bringing hard foreign currency to the cash-strapped regime, a senior South Korean diplomat said Tuesday.

"We have estimated that there are around 2,500 North Korean workers in Dandong and some 4,500 North Korean workers in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture," said Shin Bong-sup, consul general at the South Korean Consulate in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang.

Dandong is a Chinese border city where more than 70 percent of bilateral trade between North Korea and China is conducted. Yanbian, home to ethnic Koreans in China, also borders North Korea.

Shin gave the estimated number of North Korean workers in the Chinese border cities during an annual parliamentary audit in Beijing.

Impoverished North Korea has recruited its people to work abroad and reportedly kept most of their earnings, one of the few sources of hard currency for the isolated regime.

Along with China, Russia and the Middle East are also reported to be major destinations for North Korean laborers.

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Pyongyang seeks access to secret Japanese bank account of Kim's half-brother


PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 15 October, 2014, 4:42am
UPDATED : Wednesday, 15 October, 2014, 4:42am

Julian Ryall in Tokyo

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Ho Jong-man (above) had been ordered to empty a secret bank account in Japan that belongs to Kim Jong-nam, which contains approximately US$3 million.

The head of the group that represents North Korean residents of Japan has returned from Pyongyang with a list of orders that include emptying a secret bank account in Tokyo and sending the US$3 million it contains to the regime of Kim Jong-un.

Ho Jong-man, the leader of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, arrived back in early October from his first trip to Pyongyang for eight years.

Ho had reportedly expected to meet Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, for the first time since he assumed the leadership after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, in 2011.

That he was not able to see Kim indicates that Chongryon's importance to the North Korean regime is waning.

Falling membership as Chongryon members grow older or switch their allegiance to the rival South Korean association means that less money is being funnelled back to Pyongyang.

Ho did, however, meet a senior member of the North Korean government and was handed a personal letter from Kim.

Sources with links to Japan's security services have said the letter included a list of orders as well as instructions on how Chongryon should operate in Japan.

The sources added that Ho had been ordered to access a secret bank account in Japan that belongs to Kim Jong-nam, the estranged older half-brother of Kim Jong-un, and to empty the account of the approximately US$3 million that it contains.

Financial authorities have long been aware that Kim Jong-il operated a network of secret bank accounts in Europe, with Switzerland the favoured destination because of the country's strict banking secrecy laws. When authorities there began to tighten regulations on money laundering, the regime's operatives began to spread the secret funds around Europe in smaller amounts, with Luxembourg a new preferred haven.

The funds, which have been inherited by Kim Jong-un, are the profits from North Korea selling its nuclear and missile technology, dealing in narcotics, insurance fraud, the use of forced labour in its vast gulag system and the counterfeiting of foreign currency.

The sources declined to speculate on why funds had been kept in a secret account in Japan and why they are now needed back in North Korea.

They added that Ho had been ordered to secure about US$1 million that was in a similar secret account in Canada. Ho has reportedly been given six months to complete the transfer.

The letter also demanded that Ho sort out problems concerning Chongryon's 10-storey headquarters in central Tokyo. The government-backed Resolution and Collection Corporation began steps to sell the building last year in an effort to recoup loans amounting to more than 62 billion yen (HK$4.5 billion) that it had extended to the residents' association.

Two early efforts to purchase the building, one by a temple with links to organised crime groups and the other to a company in Mongolia that is believed to have been a front for the North Korean government, were blocked.

So Chung-on, director of the International Affairs Bureau of Chongryon, declined to comment.

 

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and after all the wait, they are getting their fair share of gout (like their dear leader) as pizzas are being prepared for a western-diet hungry population.

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