A Hong Kong broadcast network is reporting that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has died, while a Japanese magazine says he is in a “vegetative state” after he underwent heart surgery earlier this month. A vice director of HKSTV Hong Kong Satellite Television, a Beijing-backed broadcast network in Hong Kong, claimed that Kim was dead, citing a “very solid source.”Her post on the Chinese messaging app Weibo has been shared widely on social media, according to a report in the International Business Times. “Other unconfirmed reports, attributed to senior party sources in Beijing, said an operation to insert a stent went wrong because the surgeon’s hands were shaking so badly,” New York Post added.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 25, 2020 16:30 UTC