Rumors of his death surround North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un.
Above all, his sister is held responsible.
South Korea is now investigating these rumors.
Pyongyang - The rumor mill about North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un is seething: Because the ruler stayed away from the public for a long time, the rumor is that Kim has died.
Some even suspect that his sister Kim Yo-Jong was responsible for his supposed death.
The South Korean intelligence service has now commented on the rumors.
North Korea Tim Rumors: Murdered by Sister?
Since Kim's public appearance in mid-June, in which the North Korean's weight loss was evident, speculation about his health has increased.
There were also rumors about the use of doubles.
But as the South Korean news
agency Yonhap News Agency
reported, the dictator has no health problems.
The wildest speculations centered on the dictator's death: Since the relationship between Kim and his sister was extremely difficult, some suspected that Kim Yo-Jong might have murdered her brother in a coup attempt.
Some conspiracy theories even reported an alleged execution of the dictator by his sister.
South Korea is investigating rumors about Kim Jong Un
According to reports from the
Yonhap News Agency
, the South Korean Intelligence Service (NIS) used artificial intelligence and other modern techniques to study the 37-year-old's health. The agency was able to reject the rumors about Kim's death and the use of doubles. The claim that Kim's sister had killed him in an attempted coup also turned out to be false.
The digital recordings of the secret service came to the result that a strong weight loss was recognizable in North Korea's dictator.
However, this was related to his efforts to lose weight rather than health problems.
The figures also show that the dictator cannot go badly: in 2021, according to the NIS, the ruler took part in 70 public meetings - compared to the previous year, this was an increase of 45 percent.
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