re: #52 Kragar

Not seeing any confirmation. Rumor mill thinks it was Army hardliners who thought he was too soft.

Reuters:

Twitter, Weibo Spread Rumors of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un’s Assassination

Rumors that Kim Jong-un, the country’s supreme leader, has been assassinated just months after he took power originated on Chinese microblogging service Weibo and have now spread all over Twitter.

Others are reporting that Jong-un may be on the run rather than dead, but that some kind of coup is taking place.

The rumors remain unsubstantiated, and as Adrian Chen at Gawker wrote, these types of reports crop up often given the furtive nature of North Korea’s government.

However, the reports are beginning to gather steam, especially now that a couple of American news outlets have reported on the rumors.

Wouldn’t that be something?