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Stories now circulating within the Pyongyang commercial class have it that Kim Kyong \u201cWord that Kim Jong Eun\u2019s aunt\u2019s health condition is not good is \u201cWhenever people chat they seem to be whispering about how the aunt\u2019s husband A second source, this time from the Chinese city of Dandong, just across Meanwhile, the South Korean government says it has intelligence suggesting that Kim is now in a \u201ccritical\u201d condition, but has offered no further details. She has not been seen in public since attending a Daily NK previously reported that the brutal execution <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stories now circulating within the Pyongyang commercial class have it that Kim Kyong Hui\u2019s health has deteriorated dramatically: that she is unable to move and that she cannot recognize those around her. The authorities are currently attempting to keep the spread of such rumors under control, but with limited success. \u201cWord that Kim Jong Eun\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":25708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nHui\u2019s health has deteriorated dramatically: that she is unable to
\nmove and that she cannot recognize those around her. The authorities are currently attempting to keep the spread of such
\nrumors under control, but with limited success.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nspreading through the ranks of Pyongyang market traders,\u201d a Sinuiju-based
\nsource newly returned from the North Korean capital told Daily NK on the 8th<\/sup>.
\n\u201cSome traders said that Kim can\u2019t recognize anyone
\nbecause of her dementia<\/span>; they say it came directly from a Party
\ncadre.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n[Jang Song Taek] died first so her mental condition got even worse,\u201d the
\nsource explained. \u201cMPS [Ministry of Public Security] officers are always shouting at them to
\ndisperse wherever they gather, and have been using the threat of serious
\npunishments for people caught spreading rumors to keep a lid on things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nthe Yalu River from Sinuiju, added, \u201cThe story that Kim
\nKyong Hui\u2019s health is bad keeps emerging from North Korean hard currency
\nearners stationed here in China. This type of chatter has been around here for a long time, but this time it seems to be more serious than before, and they reckon
\nshe\u2019s going to die soon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\nperformance on September 9th<\/sup> in celebration of the founding of the
\nNorth Korean state. The rumor that her health is in a critical phase went
\nviral following the execution of Jang Song Taek, in particular when she failed
\nto appear at any of the events organized to commemorate the second anniversary
\nof the death of Kim Jong Il on December 17th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n
\nof Jang Song Taek had brought on a seizure, after which she left
\nNorth Korea for urgent treatment abroad.