Kim Jong-un mystery grows on reports of train, medical team

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SEOUL: Speculation about Kim Jong Un’s health intensified over the weekend after tantalising -- yet unverified -- reports about a visit by a Chinese medical team and movements of the North Korean leader’s armoured train. China sent a team including doctors and senior diplomats to advise its neighbour and longtime ally, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing three people familiar with the matter.

Kim Yo-yong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, has been touted to be one of successors for the throne of the country. There has been so many theories on the current leader's health situation and he has not been seen in public for six weeks. - Reuters

"Our government position is firm,” Moon Chung-in, a foreign policy adviser to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, told CNN."He has been staying in the Wonsan area since April 13” with"no suspicious movements” detected. South Korea’s Unification Ministry on Monday reiterated a government assessment made last week that there has been no unusual movement spotted inside North Korea.

The episode renews longstanding questions about the stability of a regime built on iron-fisted authority and a cult of personality for Kim, who has no known successor. Health scares have been a common occurrence over the years, and the leader’s medical condition is a closely guarded subject in one of the world’s most secretive states.

Kim similarly disappeared from state media for six weeks in 2014, prompting speculation that he had been sidelined by gout, an ankle injury or was even overthrown in a coup. He subsequently showed up walking with a cane during a visit to a new residential block. North Korea’s eastern coast saw a burst of military activity on April 14, including cruise missile tests and fighter jet maneuvers, that at the time appeared to be timed to coincide with South Korean parliamentary elections. The next day, Kim was absent from events marking his grandfather’s birthday, known as the Day of the Sun and North Korea’s most politically significant holiday.

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