North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is said to be in a coma after undergoing heart surgery earlier this month, according to Japanese media.
China has sent a fifth team of specialists to North Korea to help its doctors, Reuters reported, without clarifying whether the 36-year-old leader's condition had deteriorated.
According to Japanese media, Kim Jong Un appears to have no contact with the environment, after undergoing heart surgery and to have remained a "plant".
Rumors that the regime's 36-year-old strongman had undergone heart surgery on April 12 and since then his health is in "serious danger" quickly circulated in the Western media, with CNN first reporting the news, citing a US official, At the same time, neighboring countries, China and South Korea, spoke of "unconfirmed information".
For its part, the Seoul-based Daily NK website, which focuses on what is happening in the neighboring country, quoted anonymous sources as saying that Kim underwent heart surgery at a hospital in Hangshan province by a team of North Korean doctors, led by a heart surgeon. from Pyongyang Hospital.
According to the same website, the leader of the regime is recovering in one of his villas in Hangshan under the supervision of his doctors.
However, at the same time that there is no official information about the health of the North Korean leader, the hashtag #KimJongUndead has become a trend on twitter, meaning that Kim Jong Un is dead.
However, South Korean government officials and a Chinese official insist that there is no indication that Kim Jong Un's life is in danger and that there is no unusual mobility in North Korea.
The last time Kim Jong Un was mentioned in a government meeting was on April 11, and he did not attend the grand parade for Kim Il Sung's grandfather's birthday on April 15.