North Korea has claimed that its leader Kim Jong-un can control the weather after the dictator was pictured at the summit of a 9,000ft mountain.
The tyrant was shown wandering around under clear blue skies on Mount Paektu near the border with China – having apparently scaled it in shiny black shoes and formal clothing.
His achievement was lauded by state-controlled Korean Central News Agency which also claimed the fine weather was a result of the chubby 33-year-old’s ability to control the weather.
North Korea has claimed that its leader Kim Jong-un can control the weather after the dictator was pictured at the summit of a 9,000ft mountain (above)
The tyrant was shown wandering around under clear blue skies on Mount Paektu near the border with China – having apparently scaled it in shiny black shoes and formal clothing
Conditions are usually inhospitable during December, the agency claimed, but when Kim made his ascent, it was a ‘marvelous scene with glee at the reappearance of its great master.’ At the top, the mountain showed ‘fine weather unprecedented.’
KCNA then paid tribute to the man ‘who controls the nature.’
Last night, a South Korean government insider claimed that Kim’s latest propaganda stunt may be an indication he is planning to execute a top official.
Such visits to the mystical mountain often precede important decisions by North Korean leaders.
In November 2013, the despot visited the mountain with his aides a month before he executed top officials including Jang Song-thaek, his uncle and political guardian.
Kim visited the mountain again in April 2015, before executing Hyon Yong-chol, a former defense chief.
He had also made a pilgrimage after North Korea’s fifth nuclear test in September 2016
His achievement was lauded by state-controlled Korean Central News Agency which also claimed the fine weather was a result of the chubby 33-year-old’s ability to control the weather
Pictures show Kim wandering around on the snow-capped mountain with hardly a bead of sweat and wearing spotless and shiny shoes. Kim made a trip to the summit after North Korea’s fifth nuclear test in September 2016.
‘[Kim Jong-un’s father] Kim Jong-il did the same, he visited the mountain right before announcing in 1974 his list of 10 social decorum,’ said a South Korean government insider.
‘Kim also visited the mountain just before executing Kim Tong-kyu, then-senior official for international affairs, in 1977,’ they added.
Mount Paektu has been decreed as the ‘sacred’ birthplace of the secretive state’s first dictator, Kim’s grandfather.
Pictures released by the regime show Kim in the snowon North Korea’s border with China, which the regime rewrote history to claim was birthplace of Kim Il-Sung, the Communist who ruled from after the Second World War until 1994.
He was in fact born in the Soviet Union, but the mountain, has long been integral to the country’s identity.
It is reputedly the birthplace of the earliest Korean leader ever recorded, Dangun, who according to legend founded the early kingdom of Gojoseon in 2333BC.
The mountain is believed to be the site of the deadliest volcano eruption in history and there are fears it may erupt again as a result of North Korea’s nuclear weapons testing.
A thousand years ago it exploded so violently that ash fell as far away as northern Japan.