Hello and welcome. The north Korean Leader kim jong un has appeared in public for the first time in nearly three weeks, ending an absence that prompted international rumours about his health. The countrys official news agency said hed opened a fertiliser plant near the capital, pyongyang. Heres our correspondent in seoul, laura bicker. Yes, he is smiling, he is cutting a ribbon at a fertiliser plant in sunchon which is just north of the capital, pyongyang. In his first public appearance in state media since april 11. Another photo shows him laughing and state media says all the participants broke into ponderous tears when he appeared. It brings an end to the family source, wildly speculative headlines that he was dead or in a coma. The south korean government continually played down rumours he was ill. There was no mention of where he has been the last 20 when and why he missed the april celebration for his grandfather, the country most important day. He has vanished in the past. He va
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