Kim Jong Un denies his death and is in good health

Contrary to the growing speculation about the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the controversy over who will succeed himOn Sunday, a senior South Korean official said that his government believes that Kim is "alive and in good health."

"Kim Jong Un is alive and in good health," Moon Chung-in, a senior foreign policy adviser to the South Korean president, told CNN, adding that he has been in the Wonsan region since April 13, and no movements have been detected. suspicious.”

The South Korean official's comments come a day after the American newspaper, "The New York Post," reported a report on a director at a Chinese-backed TV, saying that the North Korean leader had "died." The reporter, who was not named by the American newspaper, is the vice president of the Chinese-backed HKSTV network in Hong Kong.

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Speculation had increased in the last period about the health of the North Korean leader, due to his absence from attending the memorial of the country’s founder Kim Il Sung on April 15, and after reports carried by an opposition newspaper issued in South Korea indicating that Kim was in poor health after undergoing heart surgery. And he is receiving treatment at a villa in Hyangsan County.

But satellite images taken on April 21, showed the presence of the train used by Kim in the city of Wonsan.

A US official told CNN that "the concerns about Kim's health are reliable, but it is difficult to assess their severity."