North Korean Leader Absent at Parliament Meeting

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was not present Thursday at the second session of the 13th Supreme People’s Assembly, raising speculation he may be ill. The North’s official media outlet, Korea Central News Agency, reported on the high-level meeting in Pyongyang, but did not name Kim Jong Un as one of the attendees. According to South Korean officials, this is the first time the North Korean leader would have missed the meeting since he took power after the death of his father in...

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