The South Korean news agency “Yonhap” reported this morning (Monday) that North Korea will increase security around the Supreme Leader Kim Jung-un. This, after the assassination of the former Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
According to the news agency’s report, the isolated country’s supreme leader attended a special conference held last Thursday, and when he waved to the crowd in front of Pyongyang’s Victory Monument, he was surrounded by four burly security guards. The guards closely guarded Kim’s body, looked around frequently, and appeared “nervous.” Also, the guards surrounded Kim and prevented the other participants from approaching him, according to the report.
It also emerged from the report that Kim has not received such close protection until now, when he participated in public activities in front of the general public. “The strengthening of personal security around the Supreme Leader may be related to the assassination of the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe.” professor Young Moo-jinthe vice president of the University of North Korea Studies, said that “the close protection of Kim is a rare phenomenon within the closed country.”