Fresh reports of the North Korean leader's demise emerged late last week, but there is no evidence to support them.
Since that absence, the North has released multiple photos and videos of the young leader. South Korean intelligence later said there was no indication that Kim was ill or had undergone surgery.
But Chang claimed that all recent photographs had been faked and that Kim Yo Jong is being pushed forward to take over from her incapacitated brother, if only temporarily. "A complete succession structure has not been formed, so Kim Yo Jong is being brought to the fore as the vacuum cannot be maintained for a prolonged period," Chang said, according toThere is no other evidence that Kim is in a coma. Little reliable information comes from inside North Korea, making it difficult for even South Korean and U.S. intelligence agencies to build up an accurate picture of Pyongyang's internal political events.
North Korean experts on social media gave Chang's claims short thrift. John Delury, a professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea,Harry Kazianis, the senior director of Korean studies at the Center for the National Interest, dismissed the reports, noting Chang's dubious sourcing.
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