North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un appeared without the aid of a walking stick at a meeting of battalion commanders and political troop instructors, the state-run media said Wednesday.
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One intelligence officer here said, "Kim's leg appears to have healed completely."
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The National Intelligence Service here told lawmakers last week that Pudgy Kim disappeared from view at the start of September to have a cyst removed from his ankle. When he resurfaced late last month he walked with a stick.
A team of medical experts from Europe were apparently flown to Pyongyang to operate on Kim's ankle.
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In a rant speech at the meeting, the corpulent Kim warned against "armageddon" for the enemy and urged the military to maintain readiness through training. It was only the third meeting of battalion commanders and political troop instructors in the country's history. The last took place in 2006, when it was preparing for a nuclear test.
Unification Ministry spokeswoman Park Soo-jin told reporters that the regime appears to have convened this week's meeting to "bolster the ailing Kim Jong-un's leadership and unite the troops." |