{"id":106361,"date":"2020-05-01T18:28:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/north-korea-defector-99-percent-sure-kim-jong-un-is-dead"},"modified":"2020-05-01T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:28:07","slug":"north-korea-defector-99-percent-sure-kim-jong-un-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/north-korea-defector-99-percent-sure-kim-jong-un-is-dead","title":{"rendered":"North Korea defector \u201899 percent\u2019 sure Kim Jong Un is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-korea-defector-99-percent-sure-kim-jong-un-is-dead.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A North Korean defector-turned-South Korea lawmaker claimed Friday he is \u201c99 percent\u201d sure that Kim Jong Un died after surgery \u2014 amid <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/20\/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-in-grave-danger-after-surgery-report\/\">swirling speculation about the dictator\u2019s condition.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ji Seong-ho, who earned a proportional representation seat of a minor party in the country\u2019s April 15 elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20200501004651315?section=nk\/nk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Yonhap News Agency<\/a> he believes Kim died after his recent surgery and that North Korea will announce it this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve wondered how long he could have endured after cardiovascular surgery. I\u2019ve been informed that Kim died last weekend,\u201d Ji told the outlet. \u201cIt is not 100 percent certain, but I can say the possibility is 99 percent. North Korea is believed to be grappling with a complicated succession issue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A North Korean defector-turned-South Korea lawmaker claimed Friday he is \u201c99 percent\u201d sure that Kim Jong Un died after surgery \u2014 amid swirling speculation about the dictator\u2019s condition. Ji Seong-ho, who earned a proportional representation seat of a minor party in the country\u2019s April 15 elections, told Yonhap News Agency he believes Kim died after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}