Kim Jong-un in coma, sister Kim Yo-jong to assume command: Reports

North Korea’s supreme leader Kim-Jong-un is reportedly in a coma and his sister Kim Yo-jong is likely to take over, several media outlets suggest quoting a former aid of South Korea’s late president Kim Dae-jung.

Chang Song-min, who worked as Kim Dae-jung’s political affairs secretary and as head of the state affairs monitoring office, reportedly claimed in a social media post that no North Korean leader would entrust any of his power to another person unless he was too sick to rule or evicted by way of coup.

“I assess him (Kim Jong Un) to be in a coma, but his life has not ended,” he was quoted as saying by The Korea Herald. “A complete succession structure has not been formed, so Kim Yo-jong is being brought to the fore as the vacuum cannot be maintained for a prolonged period,” he said.

Chang Song-min further claims to have secured the information from a source in China that Kim Jong Un is “comatose.”

As per the South Korean daily, Seoul’s spy agency told lawmakers in a closed meeting with regards to a ruling system that Kim seemed to have set up following which he shall share authority and responsibility with his most trusted aides. The National Intelligence Agency, however, stated that the new system is not linked with any serious health issue.

Chang Song-min’s claims come months after the North Korean dictator had not made a public appearance in the thick of speculations of his declining health. The supreme leader was last seen chairing a Workers’ Party politburo meeting on 11th April ahead of a top security adviser to the South’s President Moon Jae-in downplayed rumours and stated that Kim was “alive and well”.

The North Korean leader was then seen cutting the ribbon at the opening of a fertilizer factory on May 2, KCNA reported.

Be that as it may, Chang has claimed that all photographs of Kim released by North Korea in recent times were fake.

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