Kim Jong-un shown limping in unusual video footage at regime founder’s anniversary

Usually, state media is strictly staged to depict the leader in his finest form

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In an odd display of physical weakness, Kim Jong-un was shown unusually limping across the stage in footage broadcast to the country by the state media yesterday.

The North Korean leader can be seen ambling along the platform at a large audience event to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of his grandfather, the founder of the regime, Kim Il-sung.

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Usually, state media is strictly staged to depict the leader in his finest form, so a video showing him in a less than fit state is rare.

For example, Kim Il-sung suffered from an inoperable growth on the side of his neck about the size of a tennis ball before he died in 1994, and the media were banned from photographing or filming him from angles that displayed the growth.

It is not clear how Kim Jong-un has injured himself or where his limp has come from.

The video comes as North Korea threatened to violate UN sanctions with a fourth nuclear test. The country have also test-fired rockets and short-range missiles a number of times in the last 10 days.

The government issued a statement about the film, in which the actors star as two journalists ordered by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong-un, saying that the country considered the movie “an act of war” and a “wanton act of terror”. He also labelled Rogen a “gangster filmmaker”.

Franco, Rogen, and The White House are yet to respond to their aggressive demands.