{"id":609463,"date":"2021-08-03T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609463"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:51:12","slug":"kim-jong-uns-weird-head-bandage-renews-questions-about-dictators-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kim-jong-uns-weird-head-bandage-renews-questions-about-dictators-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un\u2019s Weird Head Bandage Renews Questions About Dictator\u2019s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkim-jong-uns-weird-head-bandage-renews-questions-about-dictators-health%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609463&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/kim-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s reclusive leader Kim Jong Un has all but disappeared from the headlines after the departure of his bromance buddy, former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>But a weird bandage on his neck has put him back in the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKim Jong Un has appeared in public with a dark spot, at times covered by a small bandage, on the back of his head \u2013 stoking more speculation about the slimmed-down North Korean despot\u2019s health,\u201d The New York Post reported. \u201cThe mystery spot was visible during a military event as well as in footage from a war veterans conference Kim attended late last month, according to NK News, which provides news and analysis about the rogue regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause or nature of the large, dark green spot or bruise on the rear right side of his head, which was covered with a bandage in some footage, is still unknown and is difficult to diagnose using only images,\u201d NK News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The once-rotund 37-year-old was also recently in the news when he appeared in public and looked to have shed a lot of weight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.576512455516\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf5 North Korea \u2013 Kim Jong-stud looks skinnier than EVER after the dictator dropped more than 40 pounds amid a flurry of speculation about possible gastric band surgery. Waitll&#8217; they get a load o&#8217; me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zWaVD2kQDj\">pic.twitter.com\/zWaVD2kQDj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 carl hill (@cahill2010_carl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cahill2010_carl\/status\/1422040386768343041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The communist leader was also in the news in April 2020 when a Japanese magazine claimed that he was in a vegetative state after falling gravely ill following heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/asia-pacific\/1587811046-report-kim-jong-un-in-vegetative-state-after-stent-procedure-gone-wrong\">Shukan Gendai,&nbsp;<\/a>Kim visited a rural area earlier this month and collapsed, clutching his chest.&nbsp;Kim reportedly required a stent procedure, which inserts a tube into the heart to keep blood flowing freely, following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Shukan Gendai also said the surgeon in charge of Kim\u2019s operation was not familiar with dealing with obese patients and was \u201ctoo nervous during the operation, leading to delays that left Kim in a \u2018vegetative state.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-northkorea-politics-exclusive\/exclusive-china-sent-team-including-medical-experts-to-advise-on-north-koreas-kim-sources-say-idUSKCN2263DW\">Reuters<\/a>&nbsp;reported that China has sent a team to North Korea \u2014 including medical experts \u2014 to advise on Kim, according to three people familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>The trip by the Chinese doctors and officials comes amid conflicting reports about the health of the North Korean leader. Reuters was unable to immediately determine what the trip by the Chinese team signaled in terms of Kim\u2019s health.&nbsp;A delegation led by a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s International Liaison Department left Beijing for North Korea on Thursday, two of the people said. The department is the main Chinese body dealing with neighbouring North Korea.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/04\/20\/politics\/kim-jong-un-north-korea\/\">also<\/a> reported that sources had indicated that they believed that Kim was in some sort of serious condition following a medical procedure:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>The US is monitoring intelligence that suggests North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong Un, is in grave danger after undergoing a previous surgery, according to a US official with direct knowledge.&nbsp;A second source familiar with the intelligence told CNN that the US has been closely monitoring reports on Kim\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s reclusive leader Kim Jong Un has all but disappeared from the headlines after the departure of his bromance buddy, former President Donald Trump.But a weird bandage on his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}