VIDEO on North Korean state television shows Kim Jong-un apparently struggling to walk down a slope after dramatic weight loss sparked health fears.
Regime propaganda claimed the despot’s body “completely withered away” last year out of “suffering” for the people of his impoverished nation.
It comes after a month-long disappearance raised fresh doubts about who was in charge of the nuclear-armed pariah state.
Kim reemerged in December looking gaunt and thinner than ever after he reportedly shed 44lbs in the summer.
And he looked older than his reported age of 40 in pictures of him at a politburo meeting in January.
The latest footage of Kim was revealed in a documentary titled 2021: A Great Victorious Year, which was aired by the state-run Korean Central TV.
Wearing a baggy shirt and trousers that hang off him, the tyrant is seen gingerly stepping down a ramp on a rainy construction site last August.
He goes down sideways slowly placing his feet on wooden battens – while his uniformed lackeys walk normally down the slope facing forwards.
Addressing Kim’s weight loss, the narrator says: “He showed us his fatherly side by doggedly braving snow, rain and wind while taking on the fate of the nation and people like his own children.
“His body completely withered away, and he showed his motherly side by greatly suffering and worrying to realise the dreams of the people.”
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