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Conflict stories continue to tell how exactly North Korea's chairman Kim Jong-un is now. Today (25th) there was a foreign report that the Chinese Communist Party urgently opened medical staff and sent them to North Korea two days ago. But even in Beijing, the story goes, no, it makes no sense, opinions are divided.

Today's first news, correspondent Sung-Yeop Jeong of Beijing.

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Reuters news report today.

At the outset, it was reported that China had sent medical experts to North Korea to advise Kim Jong-un.

A senior official from the Communist Party's Foreign Relations Department quoted multiple sources as saying he went to North Korea with a medical team.

However, he was wary of the expanded interpretation, saying that it is not possible to immediately know the health status of Chairman Kim just by dispatching Chinese medical personnel to North Korea.

Beijing diplomats have mixed reactions.

One source weighed in on the possibility of being true, saying, "I heard that North Korea hurriedly called and went right on the day that China was requested."

He also heard about Kim's cardiac surgery, but added that it is not a major operation and the results are good.

On the other hand, other sources said that there were no flights from Beijing to Pyongyang just before the medical staff entered, and they viewed the credibility of the report as low.

There are many talks about the personal identity of Chairman Kim on the Chinese SNS, but the authorities are blocking it.

After Kim's health ideology broke out, the North Korean embassy remained quiet during the week and the Chinese Foreign Ministry has not responded.

[Gong-suk / China Foreign Ministry spokesman (past 21st): I saw some news. However, I don't know where the sources of these news came from.]

Because of the sensitive health of Kim Jong-un, a highly sensitive secret agent, the Chinese authorities are also consistently silent, and only mixed news is tumbling.

(Video coverage: Deok-hyun Choi, video editing: Moo-Hwan Cho)

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