The latest photos of 37-year-old Kim Jong-un come from a meeting of the ruling Korean Labor Party’s ruling politburo last week. Kim appeared in public a month later. The server warned the DPRK leader of the loss of weight NK Newswhich monitors events in North Korea.
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Among other things, the server noticed that Kim tightened the strap on his favorite watch, allegedly worth $ 12,000. According to the pictures, Kim’s left wrist is significantly thinner than in the pictures from November 2020 and March of this year.
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Kim Jong-un, whose father Kim Jong-il probably died of a heart attack in December 2011, is a heavy smoker and has long struggled with problems attributed to his overweight and irresponsible lifestyle. South Korean intelligence said last year that Kim weighed about 140 pounds and gained about six to seven pounds a year since coming to power.
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Kim’s three-week absence last spring raised rumors that the leader was seriously ill and had to undergo heart surgery. Some reports even said he died. According to a more plausible theory, Kim and her family isolated themselves preventively due to the covid-19 pandemic, although North Korea continues to say that no case of coronavirus infection has occurred so far due to the timely closure of the country’s borders.
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