North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is in a “vegetative state” after he underwent heart surgery earlier this month, a Japanese magazine says.

The weekly Shukan Gendai reported Friday that a Chinese medic sent to North Korea as part of a team to treat Kim believed a delay in a simple procedure left the leader severely ill, Reuters reported.

North Korean media hasn’t mentioned Kim’s health or whereabouts, even though reports by other media have sparked international speculation about his well-being.

The Chinese expert told the magazine that Kim clutched his chest and fell to the ground on a visit to the countryside earlier this month. A doctor accompanying Kim performed CPR and took him to a nearby hospital.

Kim, believed to be 36, needed a stent procedure, which calls for placing a tube into a congested blood vessel to allow blood to keep flowing to the heart, according to Shukan Gendai.

The hashtag #KimJongUndead was trending on Twitter but without any proof of the leader’s death.

Earlier this week, Seoul-based website Daily NK reported that Kim was recovering after undergoing a cardiovascular procedure on April 12. The outlet cited one unnamed source in North Korea.

South Korean government officials and a Chinese official with the Liaison Department challenged subsequent reports suggesting that Kim was in grave danger after surgery, Reuters said. South Korean officials said they had detected no signs of unusual activity in North Korea.

President Donald Trump has downplayed reports that Kim is ill, and an official familiar with U.S. intelligence said the government had no reason to conclude he was seriously ill or unable eventually to reappear in public, Huffington Post reported.

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ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — A local woman says she’s beyond frustrated, after she says her federal stimulus money was deposited into someone else’s account. And she’s not alone.

“We need the money so bad,” said Jill Milligan.

Like many people, Milligan and her husband were looking forward to getting their CARES Act stimulus money.

“I still have rent and utilities to pay,” she said.

But when she logged on to the IRS site, it told her the money was deposited into an account she didn’t recognize.

“Who got my money? Someone else got our money,” she said.

Now, the website says the money will come on Friday the 24^th, but it still says the wrong account.

She doesn’t understand how the government got it wrong, since they had their account information.

“We have had this account for 20 years, nothing has changed,” Jill said.

She’s tried calling, but no one is currently answering the phone at the IRS.  

“I know we are in a shutdown, but people can work from home. Set up a call center. Where these questions can be asked and handled. I just think it was irresponsible,” Jill said.

Other people have also complained online to the IRS about the same thing.

“I just feel like they have made this so much worse, for a lot of people,” she said.

A media representative for the IRS got back with us, referring us to a part of the IRS website which insinuates that if the money was deposited into a closed bank account, then people like Jill would then get a hard copy check in the mail.

She’s still waiting and we will keep checking on it

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A woman was busted for allegedly spitting on a fellow shopper during a squabble over social distancing at a high-end Italian market in Philadelphia, according to a new report.

Shopper Alexis Danilo told KYW-TV that she was shopping at Di Bruno Bros. in Center City Sunday when Jacqueline McBride, 27, got a little too close to her.

“I backed away from her,” Danilo told the outlet. “I guess that upset her. She just said, ‘B—h, I don’t have the disease.’”

“[She] bumped into me, and I said something along the lines of ‘That’s rude, there is a pandemic going on,’” Danilo added. “And then she just responded, ‘I’ll fight you right now,’ and took off her mask and spit on my face.”

Luckily, Danilo was wearing a mask and gloves at the time, and staff at the market helped her wash her face to “get the spit off” right away, she said.

Police say McBride also spat on a male employee during an argument at the same shop a day earlier, the outlet reported.

She was arrested and charged with simple assault, terroristic threats and harassment, police confirmed Thursday night, according to the report.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney called the incident “unconscionable and criminal” Thursday afternoon.

“We hope the police find her and get her someplace she can’t spit on anybody,” Kenney said. “I think people start losing their minds a little bit and it’s understandable, but that’s an assault. It’s aggravated assault to knowingly do that to make people ill, intentionally.”

Meanwhile, Danilo said she is self-quarantined as a precaution and is doing well for now.

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The Eighth Army is taking a hardline stance against those who break health protection condition orders during the coronavirus pandemic, even publishing the results of enforcement actions online.

Three unnamed soldiers from the 94th Military Police Battalion received Article 15s after visiting an off-post bar and sneaking through a hole in the installation fence on Camp Walker, in the South Korean city of Daegu.

The Eighth Army said the punishments were published “to ensure our soldiers, civilians, contract employees and their families understand the ramifications of not following the commander’s directives.”

Each of the soldiers were reduced in rank to E-1, docked $866 per pay month for two months and placed on 45-day restrictions.

One soldier created the hole in the installation’s fence, while two others were chided for not reporting the hole, according to punishment summaries. Two soldiers also made false official statements to investigators, the summaries stated.

“Doing the wrong thing has serious consequences,” the soldiers’ overarching command wrote online. “Don’t risk everyone’s safety and our ability to complete our mission because you can’t follow orders.”

U.S. Forces Korea leadership has also taken a hardline approach to civilians under their authority.

Last week, the command banned an American contractor from accessing all U.S. military installations on the Korean Peninsula for two years, effective April 14, after the individual failed to comply with an order to quarantine following exposure to COVID-19, the command said.

The contractor, who was based out of Camp Humphreys, had direct contact with a co-worker who tested positive for the virus, and was ordered to remain in quarantine to monitor for symptoms.

“The individual chose to non-comply with the quarantine directive and visited the PX and the commissary,” U.S. officials on the peninsula said in a statement.

Another civilian working for the Department of the Army at Camp Yongsan-Casey was observed by garrison town patrol visiting an off-post bar and was also banned from all U.S. installations on the peninsula effective April 17.

The COVID-19 situation in South Korea and on U.S. bases has been gradually coming under control thanks in large part to strict mitigation measures by both the host nation and U.S. military authorities.

In many cases, the two entities worked in concert to control the virus’ spread. In the city of Daegu, for instance, U.S. and Republic of Korea troops have conducted joint disinfecting operations to sanitize public areas.

An off-limits order for the city of Daegu was lifted last week and the urban area is no longer considered a hot spot for the virus, though current health protection measures and local restrictions still apply, officials said.

South Korea has been praised for its ability to contain COVID-19 by instituting drive-through test sites, temperature checks and sanitation measures early on in the pandemic. After reaching a peak of about 900 new COVID-19 cases per day in late February, the rates have now dropped to roughly 12 per day this week.

Only two active duty service members have tested positive for COVID-19 on the Korean peninsula so far, U.S. Forces Korea officials said last week.

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