As the rumours about death of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un after a possible botched up heart surgery gains momentum on social media, netizens flooded the Internet with memes and jokes over his sister Kim Yo Jong as possible new Supreme Leader of North Korea.
Some even compared her to former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.Wikipedia editor waiting to change Kim Jong-un wikipedia page from. “Is” to “was”#KimYoJong #KimJongUn pic.twitter.com/Gthbu2IZ2F
— 🌈G U M R A H (@Nonveg_ladka13) April 26, 2020
And when everyone has brought out the their dark side in their humour, how can the Ghana Pallbearers be far behind.People are saying #KimYoJong will be the first ever Woman dictator in the world
— chacha monk (Gharelu aadmi) (@oldschoolmonk) April 26, 2020
No broo. First woman dictator was Indira Gandhi.
Rare picture of Kim Jong-un before and after surgery #KimYoJong #KIMJONGDEAD pic.twitter.com/VxGmwxq1VR
— Samantha 😍 ♥ (@def_Sammy) April 25, 2020
The lockdown indeed seems to have brought forward the dark side of everyone.Waiting for the doctor signal #KimJongUn pic.twitter.com/TdX2YNOB23
— Yusuf Hawadleh (@yusufko) April 25, 2020
Netizens also trended ‘KimJongUndead’ hashtag with their memes.Leak video of Kim Jong Un’s ghost running after his Surgeon #KIMJONGUNDEAD #KimJongUn pic.twitter.com/cUFALuxXUq
— Animeforeverofficial (@animeforevers) April 25, 2020
Kim Jong-un when he heard his citizens are escaping North Korea #KIMJONGUNDEAD pic.twitter.com/8YB4RlJSTS
— it’s a no (@abbasaabidi14) April 26, 2020
The lady in question in Ri Chun-hee, news presenter in North Korea who has an extremely dramatic way of presenting news. Here she is speaking on nuclear tests carried out by North Korea.I will only believe #KimJongUn is dead when this iconic lady announces it pic.twitter.com/rxz2wBlcJB
— Andrew (@atxlands) April 25, 2020
She had cried when she presented death of Kim Jong Un’s father, Kim Jong II.
Kim Jong Un death rumours
There have been reports about rumours about death of Kim Jong Un after a surgery gone bad. Kim Jong Un had recently missed the celebration of his grandfather’s birthday on 15 April. This raised speculations and rumours about his health conditions as, reportedly, only three days prior to the event, Kim Jong Un, underwent heart surgery. It is one of the biggest events of the year as it marks the birth of the nation’s founder, Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, Kim II-Sung.
Kim Jong-un has never missed the event, and it seemed very unlikely that he would simply choose not to turn up. Inevitably, his absence prompted speculation and rumours, none of which is easy to substantiate.
North Korea’s state media reported on April 11 that Kim attended a Politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea and reported the next day that Kim “inspected a pursuit assault plane group”, however the state daily had not revealed the date of that visit.
The first report of illness
An anonymous source told the Daily NK, a Seoul-based website that gathers information from informants inside the isolated nation, that they understood he had been struggling with cardiovascular problems since last August. However, his health reportedly “worsened after repeated visits to Mount Paektu”. This was, reportedly, because of excessive smoking, obesity and overwork. This led to a chain of reporting by international media on a single-sourced story.
Later some reports emerged that intelligence agencies in South Korea and the US were monitoring the claim. Post this news, rumours started brewing as US media reported that Kim Jong Un was “gravely ill” post-surgery.
North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un:
North Korea tightly controls any information surrounding its leader, who is treated almost like a deity there, and gathering intelligence out of the country is hardly possible.
Kim, believed to be 36-year-old, took power upon his father’s death in December 2011 and is the third generation of his family to rule the country.
Known to be a heavy smoker, Kim has been shown in state media in recent months appearing at military drills and riding a white horse on the country’s revered Mt. Paektu, where state propaganda says his grandfather used as a guerrilla base to fight Japanese colonial occupiers.
In 2014, Kim Jong Un disappeared for 40 days from early September, which had also sparked a torrent of speculation then, including that he had been ousted in a coup by other political grandees. Then he re-appeared, pictured with a cane. State media at the time admitted he was suffering from an “uncomfortable physical condition”, but did not address rumours that he was suffering from gout.
