CNN: Kim Jong-un Overthrown in ‘Silent Coup’?

Prominent defector Jang Jin-sung says a group called the Organisation and Guidance Department is now in charge

Former North Korean spy believes Kim Jong-un has been overthrown in ‘silent coup’ (Metro)

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been conspicuous by his absence in the past month, leading speculation to run wild over the reason he has gone to ground.

Is it illness, injury, death (still the most common reason to go to ground) – or is it Emmental?

Now one of the secretive state’s top defectors has suggested that the 31-year-old has been the target of a silent coup.

Jang Jin-sung, once a key element in former leader Kim Jong-il’s counterintelligence and propaganda machine, says the dictator is being quietly but firmly sidelined by a powerful group called the Organisation and Guidance Department (OGD).

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