For more than a week, the mainstream media got a lot of mileage out of speculating as to whether North Korea’s leader had died. It turns out Kim Jong-un is alive, but that hasn’t stemmed the flow of rumors about his health.
Kim Jong-un’s name usually makes its way into the headlines of the international press following North Korean missile tests, or over verbal sparring with US President Donald Trump. But the latest wave of attention was caused by his absence from public life. If Kim missed his grandfather’s birthday, the media reasoned, something must be really wrong.
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