# Has the Kim Jong Un regime in North Korea been overthrown?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 5, 2014, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-kim-jong-un-regime-in-north-korea-been-overthrown/700450 "2014-10-05T12:29:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-kim-jong-un-regime-in-north-korea-been-overthrown/700450/61 "2014-10-28T23:02:20Z")

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> SEOUL: South Korea’s spy agency says it has an explanation of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s mysterious 6-week-long public absence.
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> An aide for a South Korean lawmaker says the National Intelligence Agency told legislators on Tuesday that a foreign doctor operated on Kim in September or October to remove a cyst from his right ankle.

> **[Seoul officials say Kim Jong-un had ankle surgery - Times of India](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Seoul-officials-say-Kim-Jong-Un-had-ankle-surgery/articleshow/44961681.cms)**
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> Rest of World News: South Korea's spy agency says it has an explanation of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's mysterious 6-week-long public absence.

That’s just not as interesting as a coup, is it?

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-kim-jong-un-regime-in-north-korea-been-overthrown/700450/62 "2014-10-29T02:54:55Z")

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If I were Kim, I’d disappear from public view occasionally just to sit back and watch the West go all wonky over it.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-kim-jong-un-regime-in-north-korea-been-overthrown/700450/63 "2014-10-29T22:15:04Z")

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> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> If I were Kim, I’d disappear from public view occasionally just to sit back and watch the West go all wonky over it.

Go on a sushi retreat, and take the female bodyguards.

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