Pyongyang is not “under lockdown,” sources living in the city told NK News on Friday, rejecting commentary in the Telegraph that suggested a coup d’etat may have taken place in North Korea.

The Telegraph’s suggestion of political instability emerged Friday amid Kim Jong Un’s ongoing public disappearance and a New Focus International report, which this week suggested North Korea recently “restricted entry and exit permissions to Pyongyang”.

“I cannot confirm that the capital is under lockdown,” a source based in Pyongyang told NK News on Friday, adding that there were “no signs of any tense situation in the city”.

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