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TOKYO — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il appears very much alive, smiling and apparently enjoying a soccer game — in undated photographs his state-run media released over the weekend.
The Korean Central News Agency’s photos did little to clarify the state of his health. The images were the second batch of supposedly recent photos that have been made public by the North Korean news agency since Kim reportedly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in mid-August. Those reports came from the chief of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service and from unnamed U.S. intelligence sources.
North Korea has derided such reports, insisting all along that Kim is just fine.
