North Korean leader Kim Jong-un hasn’t appeared in public since early April. In particular, his absence from the Day of the Sun celebrations on April 15 raised serious questions.
Now, according to South Korean defence chief Jeong Kyeong-doo, there has been an "unusual increase” in North Korea's military activity.
The secretive ‘hermit kingdom’ has, he said, “been heightening military tensions through an unusual increase in the inspection activities for its combat readiness posture, mostly of its artillery, and in its air force planes' flight operations.” There’s speculation that Kim may be gravely ill, or even dead.
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