North Korean leader Kim Jong Un broke his precedent of midnight appearances for a Party Foundation Day anniversary on Friday and remains a no-show, a name list published by the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) indicated.
North Korea watchers had expected Kim Jong Un to appear at the mausoleum, with his disappearance from public view now continuing for more than one month, yet the KCNA article made no mention of his attendance.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un broke his precedent of midnight appearances for a Party Foundation Day anniversary on Friday and remains a no-show, a name list published by the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) indicated.
North Korea watchers had expected Kim Jong Un to appear at the mausoleum, with his disappearance from public view now continuing for more than one month, yet the KCNA article made no mention of his attendance.
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John G. Grisafi is an analyst and Korean linguist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Having previously worked as an analyst for the United States Army in South Korea and studied Korean at the Defense Language Institute, he is now majoring in East Asian Languages & Civilization and History at the University of Pennsylvania.