North Korea’s Kim Jong-un was ‘seriously ill’ in Covid-19 surge, says sister – blames ‘South Korean puppets’


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Kim Jong-un’s sister revealed that the North Korean leader suffered from a “high fever” during a recent Covid-19 outbreak, as she vowed to “eradicate” South Korean authorities if they continued to tolerate propaganda leaflets that the regime blames for spreading the virus. Repeating dubious claims that the pamphlets caused the recent Covid outbreak in the North, Kim Yo-jong blamed “South Korean puppets” for sending “dirty objects” across the border in leaflets carried by balloons, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday. The revelation of her brother’s illness marked an unusual admission for a regime that rarely comments on the...