{"id":32929,"date":"2021-06-09T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T04:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/09\/kim-jong-un-apparent-weight-loss-prompts-speculation-over-north-korean-leaders-health"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:15:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T04:15:19","slug":"kim-jong-un-apparent-weight-loss-prompts-speculation-over-north-korean-leaders-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32929","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un: apparent weight loss prompts speculation over North Korean leader\u2019s health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim looks noticeably slimmer in his first public appearance for a month, highlighting possible health issues over weight and lifestyle <\/p>\n<p>The North Korean leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, has prompted more speculation about his health after recent photographs suggested he had lost weight.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, whose heavy frame has drawn global interest since he became the country\u2019s leader almost a decade ago, looked noticeably trimmer in images released by state media on Saturday, according to South Korea\u2019s Yonhap news agency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/09\/kim-jong-un-apparent-weight-loss-prompts-speculation-over-north-korean-leaders-health\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim looks noticeably slimmer in his first public appearance for a month, highlighting possible health issues over weight and lifestyle The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has prompted more speculation about his health after recent photographs suggest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,421,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32930,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32929\/revisions\/32930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}