“VHearing our respectable Secretary General thinner is what breaks the hearts of our people the most. Broadcast by the very austere North Korean state television, this comment on Kim Jong-un surprised, in a country where the health of the chief is usually taboo. It was however made by an inhabitant of Pyongyang interviewed in June about yet another speech by Kim. The experts of the Communist dynasty had realized this for several weeks: the Supreme Guide, who would have weighed up to 140 kilos, had visibly lost at least 20 in the first half of 2021!
Since then, this spectacular metamorphosis has caused much ink to flow. Behind closed doors with parliamentarians in Seoul at the end of October, the South Korean intelligence services even unveiled a very serious r …
