{"id":20125,"date":"2024-06-24T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/kim-jong-un-prompts-health-speculation-as-experts-declare-doesnt-look-like-a-healthy-man\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T11:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:47:37","slug":"kim-jong-un-prompts-health-speculation-as-experts-declare-doesnt-look-like-a-healthy-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/kim-jong-un-prompts-health-speculation-as-experts-declare-doesnt-look-like-a-healthy-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un prompts health speculation as experts declare: \u2018doesn\u2019t look like a healthy man\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has raised another round of speculation about his health following publication of photos from his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t know what the severity of his health is like, but, just by looking at it on the TV screens, [he] doesn\u2019t look like a healthy man,\u2019 Professor Sung-Yoon Lee, fellow at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and author of \u2018The Sister: North Korea\u2019s Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the World,\u2019 told Fox News Digital. \u2018But it\u2019s been like that for, you know, almost 10 years now.\u2019<\/p>\n

Former CIA North Korea analyst Sue Mi Terry aroused speculation when she said, based on footage of his meeting with Putin in Pyongyang, that Kim \u2018doesn\u2019t look too good to me.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018There was a time when he lost a little weight, and he looked better, so my initial reaction was that he didn\u2019t look, in terms of being healthy, because his health is something that we always track anyway,\u2019 Terry said, according to The Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lee agreed with Terry\u2019s assessment, describing part of the meeting when Kim first arrived at the meeting in his limousine and walked \u2018no more than 30 yards\u2019 before getting on an escalator. With that minor exertion, \u2018you could see Kim Jong Un huffing and puffing, and you could audibly hear it: [He was] breathing hard like that after walking 25, 30 yards, and even when the two sat down, he was still out of breath,\u2019 Lee said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Lee cautioned that Kim has long appeared unhealthy, looking \u2018morbidly obese\u2019 for much of his tenure as the supreme leader of the hermit kingdom and that even if he appears incredibly unhealthy again following his weight loss in 2021, he could still live well thanks to the health care at his disposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Kim is filthy rich: He owns an entire state \u2014 it\u2019s his domain in a medieval style, absolute monarch\u2026 he has the finest medical team, first-rate, although the health care system throughout the nation is dilapidated,\u2019 Lee explained. \u2018It\u2019s a joke, but he has good doctors working for him, and their raison d\u2019etre is to make sure that Kim doesn\u2019t collapse the next day.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lee noted that both Kim\u2019s father and grandfather, Kim Jong Il and Kim Sung Il, respectively, died from heart attacks, and he talked at length about Kim\u2019s many vices, such as heavy drinking and smoking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A 2016 report from The Guardian noted that Kim had gained 90 pounds in the four years since he took over following his father\u2019s death due to \u2018binges\u2019 of food and alcohol to cope with \u2018constant fear of being assassinated.\u2019 The report cited South Korea\u2019s intelligence service, which claimed that Kim weighed 286 pounds at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Kim also apparently suffered gout in October 2014,\u2019 Lee revealed. \u2018He was not seen in public from mid-September to about mid-October and then showed up with a cane.\u2019<\/p>\n

Kim\u2019s health will also remain vitally important to Putin, who increasingly relies on weapons from his allies as the war in Ukraine depletes both sides. Reports indicate that North Korea could have sent as many as 5 million artillery shells to Russia, based on the size of containers shipped last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Kim knows that he has some leverage now with Putin and for Putin to make this on this pilgrimage, this unusual visit to North Korea,\u2019 Lee argued. \u2018[It] says a lot about how the two sides are joined together in rewriting international law, international norms, violating sanctions \u2014 brazenly denying any military collusion.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The two men signal to Washington and other allies that, hey, you do your best to derail our partnership: We\u2019re standing tall together,\u2019 Lee concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has raised another round of speculation about his health following publication of photos from his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u00a0 \u2018I don\u2019t know what the severity of his health is like, but, just by looking at it on the TV screens, [he] doesn\u2019t look like a healthy man,\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}