Kim Jong-un may have deliberately faked his own death in order to expose traitors in his inner circle, an expert on North Korea has claimed.
After going missing from public life for 20 days, the dictator made a public appearance on Friday at the opening of a fertiliser factory.
There had been much speculation about the 36-year-old's health, with various reports coming out of the isolated regime claiming he had died.
But on Friday, state television network KCNA reported he had attended the completion of a plant in a region north of the capital Pyongyang.
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