The North Korean leader was said to have visited a factory on Friday, after a series of unsubstantiated news reports suggested that he was gravely ill.Rumors that North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Un was in poor health, the country’s state media is reporting that he was seen in public .
Kim purportedly appeared at a fertilizer plant in Sunchon and was photographed cutting a red ribbon, according to state media. He was reportedly last seen on state media on April 11.
Last week, reports surfaced that Kim was in ill health after undergoing heart surgery, though details conflicted and the reports could not be independently confirmed.
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The country is infamously closed off from the rest of the world, and information about its society and government, and about Kim in particular, is difficult to verify.
On Monday, Donald Trump was asked about Kim’s health, and said that he wished the dictator “well.”
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“On Kim Jong-un? I can’t tell you exactly. Yes, I do have a very good idea, but I can’t talk about it now,” said Trump when asked at a news conference if he had been given an update on the North Korean leader. “I just wish him well.”
“I hope he’s fine,” Trump added. “I do know how he’s doing, relatively speaking. We will see. You’ll probably be hearing in the not too distant future.”
“Nobody knows where he is,” he said later in the news conference of Kim.
Photographs of Kim smiling and clapping at the ribbon ceremony were released by North Korean media on Saturday. He was accompanied by his sister.
