'We do not have anything to confirm regarding the supreme leader or relevant changes in North Korea,' the South Korean Foreign Ministry told Newsweek.
South Korean officials have said there is no evidence to suggest anything unusual is occurring with North Korea or the health of its supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, with a Seoul official, two experts on North Korean affairs and some other sources saying he could be lying low to avoid the coronavirus pandemic.
North Korea Leadership Watch blog head Michael Madden also finds this theory plausible. He pointed to a potentially similar situation involving Kim Jong Un's father, the late supreme leader Kim Jong Il, in 2003 during a time of global turmoil and another coronavirus outbreak that first appeared in neighboring China.
But now, Kazianis said,"North Korea is clearly facing the greatest existential threat in a generation as the coronavirus threatens the Kim regime's very survival." He indicated that Kim's health condition may already put him at risk for getting COVID-19. "I just wish him well. I've had a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un," Trump said."If I weren't president, you'd be in war. You would've been in war with Korea. You would have been in war with North Korea if I wasn't president—that, I can tell you. He expected that."
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