Can’t make this stuff up.
Via Bloomberg:
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un purged about 10 officials of his ruling Workers’ Party for watching South Korean soap operas, Yonhap News reported today, without specifying what or when the action was taken.
Kim, who returned to the public gaze this month after six weeks out of view, had a cyst removed from his right ankle in September or October, Yonhap said, citing two South Korean lawmakers who attended a briefing by the nation’s intelligence service. A foreign doctor invited to the isolated nation performed the surgery, the news agency said, adding that the condition could recur due to Kim’s obesity.