OREANDA-NEWS. Dmitry Peskov, a press secretary of the President of Russia, said that the Kremlin officials are aware of media reports about the state of health of the South Korean leader Kim Jong-un, but it is not still known whether they are true or not. “We are waiting for the official information,” Peskov added.

A day before, the television channel CNN reported with reference to a source in the US administration about the serious deterioration in the health of Kim Jong-un after a surgical operation. The last time he appeared in public on April 11 at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea. According to the interlocutor of CNN, on April 15, Kim Jong-un for the first time in a long time missed the ceremony on the occasion of the anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung.