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He’s back! The Korean Central News Agency of North Korea today released this photo of Kim Jong Il, possibly to refute the reports of his ill health: The KCNA reports that Kim was visiting a new “e-business institute” in the city of Kanggye: He was pleased to learn that the graduates from computer genius classes ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.
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He's back! The Korean Central News Agency of North Korea today released this photo of Kim Jong Il, possibly to refute the reports of his ill health:

He’s back! The Korean Central News Agency of North Korea today released this photo of Kim Jong Il, possibly to refute the reports of his ill health:

The KCNA reports that Kim was visiting a new “e-business institute” in the city of Kanggye:

He was pleased to learn that the graduates from computer genius classes of various schools have grown to be young technicians performing an important role in the field of information industry and said that this proud reality eloquently proves the validity and vitality of the measure taken by the WPK to strengthen the work for training computer geniuses.

The KCNA also released photos earlier this week of Kim touring a collective farm:

Of course, keep in mind that neither of these photos are dated and North Korea is not above engaging in some photoshop fakery.

Update: Swedish blogger Dennis Josefsson writes in that he’s found another photo from February with Kim in the same city wearing the same outfit. Very strange.

Check it out here. (Mostly in Swedish.)

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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