North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected on Wednesday recovery works at the Komdok area of the South Hamgyong province, which was recently hit by flooding and typhoons, and promised to build at least 25,000 houses over the next five years in the damaged areas

It is rather unlikely that speculations about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's grave illness or even death are true, as the country appears to be carrying on as usual and shows no signs indicating that something exceptionally serious happened to him, James Edward Hoare, former senior UK diplomat in Pyongyang and research associate at London's School of Oriental and African Studies, told Sputnik