“Staying up all night is my constitution… My today is until 5:00 the next day”
Analysis of intelligence authorities “I can’t sleep due to personal threats, etc.”
On the 25th, the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Workers’ Party of Korea, reported in an article titled “A Great Parent’s Day” that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is working hard to highlight the image of a “loving leader” by praising the hard work of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. On the other hand, our intelligence authorities are also analyzing that it seems to be a symptom of insomnia.
According to a report citing the Rodong Sinmun by Yonhap News, Chairman Kim told an executive who begged him to “rest for a while” at the dawn of a new day, saying, “Generally, people watch until the evening when business ends today, or keep their mind until 24:00 ( He said, “(I) view today as 5 o’clock the next day and do business, so I just summarized the business for the day at 5 o’clock and planned the business to be carried out on the new day.”
On the 21st and 23rd, North Korea announced that it conducted an underwater explosion test of a nuclear unmanned underwater attack boat and a simulated air explosion test of a nuclear warhead of a strategic cruise missile in the presence of Chairman Kim Jong-un. | yunhap news
Chairman Kim also said, “Since I was young, I have become accustomed to working through the night, and now it has become a rule of life.” When the problem is solved after struggling all night, I feel really refreshed and all the tiredness disappears in an instant.”
In January, the Rodong Sinmun also advertised Chairman Kim’s tireless efforts in an article titled “The Great Party is Leading Us,” and Chosun Central TV also featured him exclusively in the documentary film “Father of the People” in October of last year. Even in the middle of moving to the train, he showed his work without closing his eyes.
On the other hand, South Korean intelligence authorities believe that “sleeplessness” may be a sign of health problems, such as revealing that Chairman Kim suffered from insomnia in the past. At a plenary meeting of the National Assembly Intelligence Committee in July 2016, the National Intelligence Service said, “Chairman Kim is very worried about threats to his personal life. He suffers from insomnia and can’t sleep well,” he reported.
Choi Jin-wook, former head of the Korea Institute for National Unification, also told the British Daily Telegraph on the 8th, “I heard that Chairman Kim used to cry after drinking a lot.”