Multiple news outlets are reporting that 36-year-old North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has died.
Rumors surrounding Jong-un’s health intensified today as Asian media outlets claimed that he had died or is currently ‘gravely ill’.
TMZ was the first to report the news, writing, “North Korea’s Supreme Leader/dictator Kim Jong-un has reportedly died, or is on his death bed with no hope for recuperation — according to media outlets in China and Japan.”
The vice director of Hong Kong Satellite Television (HKSTV) Shijian Xingzou says that a ‘very solid source’ has told her the North Korean despot is already dead, reports DailyMail.
Separately, a Japanese media outlet claims that Kim has gone into a ‘vegetative state’ after he underwent heart surgery earlier in the month.
However, a 250-metre-long train belonging to the dictator has been spotted near to his Wonsan holiday compound as recently as Thursday in satellite photos, according to news website 38North.
Although Kim’s whereabouts remains unknown, the train’s presence at a nearby railway station reserved for the Kim family in the ‘elite’ area on the east coast suggests he has visited the hideaway.
