Mystery surrounds the health and whereabouts of the Hermit Kingdom dictator, Kim Jong-un. Over the past several days, reports of Kim Jong-un’s health status have ranged from recuperation from routine surgery, a cardiac event that left him in a vegetative state, that he’s died, and then yesterday both that he was injured during one of his frequent missile tests, and that he’s in good health, having penned a proof-of-life thank-you note to North Korean workers.

From author and columnist Gordon Chang, on the missile injury theory:

Oh, the irony of that scenario.

Then during his daily coronavirus presser yesterday, President Trump was asked about Kim Jong-un, and then specifically about the letter allegedly authored by the dictator thanking those working on a “coastal tourist area.” His answers to both were curious:

President Trump on Kim Jong Un: "I do have a very good idea, but I can't talk about it now. I just wish him well. I do know how he's doing… You'll probably be hearing in the not too distant future."

— Emel Akan (@mlakan) April 27, 2020

When a reporter said Kim Jong Un made a statement on Saturday, President Trump said: "I don't think so."

"Nobody knows where he is, so he obviously couldn't have said it."

— Emel Akan (@mlakan) April 27, 2020

And, of course, the brain-dead leftists on social media, and over at CNN where critical thought goes to die, had a field day because mockingbirds never look any deeper than the ends of their beaks.

But back to President Trump.

While he didn’t say much about the North Korean dictator, if we read between the lines about what he did say, it’s quite telling in my oh-so-humble opinion.

Firstly, his initial statement is without ambiguity: Trump says he knows Kim Jong-un’s condition. He was adamant about that. What he didn’t offer was that Kim is either fine…or otherwise. If he’s simply recuperating from routine surgery, then I’d think the president would say as much and let the world know he’ll be back shortly and that their nuclear weapons-reduction talks would soon resume. But on the other hand, if Kim Jong-un is incapacitated, it’s understandable that the president would refrain from sharing that, as the ramifications of a dictator on his death bed or worse are significant, including a dangerous civil war, amid a pandemic no less, resulting from the potential familial power vacuum.

Secondly, President Trump says he’s certain that Kim didn’t pen the note thanking workers for their construction efforts.

So in one breath Trump knows how Kim Jong-un is doing, and is certain he’s not the author of the letter.

Couple that with the other reports slowly dripping out of North Korea, and the fact that Kim Jong-un’s sister—a stone-cold sociopath—has become more prominently displayed as of late, and I think we can surmise, whatever the cause, that Kim is either in a vegetative state—yet still “alive” as South Korea has asserted, although certainly not “well”—or he has died or soon will. Either of those scenarios would prompt the Powers That Be in North Korea to head-fake the world—in the form of a letter—in an effort to try to tamp down the rumors of his ill health, and that all is well in North Korea, so please cease and desist the Dear Leader Is Dead rumors; we got this.

But if that’s the case, then why the increased military readiness drills reportedly occurring inside North Korea? And, as rumor has it, is China really sending troops to the border between the two communist nations over fears of a potential civil war (or for other, more nefarious reasons)? And if Kim Jong-un is permanently incapacitated, is his military in charge of North Korea, and most importantly, are they minding the nukes and other weapons of mass destruction?

And speaking of nukes and bioweapons in the hands of lunatics: neither China nor North Korea value the fairer sex. And if Kim Kim Jong-un is no longer capable of performing his dictatorial duties, would that patriarchal system really allow his sister to take the helm in any way that cedes her, as her brother has enjoyed, vice-grip authority over all of North Korea, her brutally oppressed people, and said nukes?

I doubt it.

She’d either decline the role or cede it to Kim Jong-un’s uncle, be a place-holding figurehead for the North Korean military (and perhaps Kim Jong-Un’s now ten-year-old son), or be assassinated, or some combination of the three. Whatever her fate, I wouldn’t want to be in her kitten heels right now, as we all know that political assassinations are routine within and without North Korea.

Whatever is transpiring in North Korea, it’s clear from Trump’s not-so-vague remarks yesterday—and his corresponding body language suggesting he’s withholding something significant—that he likely knows what’s up and exactly what’s at stake.

…a worst-case scenario is suggested by Van Jackson, who considers the possibility of a dangerous power struggle inside North Korea escalating into a military clash between the U.S. and China if North Korea were to become destabilized. He notes the prospect of internal unrest – even civil war – within North Korea, must raise the issue of the security of North Korea’s nuclear weapons. If civil order breaks down, U.S. forces in South Korea, and the South Korean military, might be forced to intervene north of the DMZ to secure these weapons. A U.S. move closer to the Yalu could then easily trigger a response from Beijing.”

Aside from the obvious TDS emanating from Mr. Jackson’s twitter account—and my personal daydream of a united Korea with its citizens living in relative freedom and firmly in the 21st century—his assessment is otherwise, I think, pretty spot on. Someone fill in the pea-brained social media and CNN dodos.

I predict in the next few days the rest of us will learn the condition of Kim Jong-un as well. And if the situation is as some suspect, it doesn’t bode well for the rest of the world, because, yes, Kim Jong-un is a brutal dictator who deserves the same suffering inflicted upon Otto Warmbier and then some. But the alternatives—his vicious, sociopathic sister who’d be looking to show the world she’s as tough as the last three North Korean dictators, or a military dictatorship controlled by China—are far more dangerous options for a world already in turmoil.

Feature Image Credit: Shealah Craighead, Chief White House Photographer; Wikimedia; public domain; image cropped.