North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun has published pictures showing Kim Jong Un walking without a cane during a Korean People’s Army (KPA) rally in Pyongyang on November 3 and 4.

Pictures of Kim since his reappearance, following 40 days out of the media spotlight, have shown the leader with a cane, feeding rumors of health problems. Recently, South Korea’s intelligence agency said that he had surgery to remove an ankle cyst.

Kim was presiding over a meeting of KPA battalion commanders and political instructors, an event that has taken place only three times in North Korea’s history. The first military guidance