N Korean leader may have been assasinated in China this morning

[sgreger1]

At about 10:00am west coast time, Chinese social media began exploding with reports that N Korean leader Kim Jung Un was assasinated at the N Korean embassy in Beijing, China. No official word yet but there are pictures and reports of a fleet of blacked out vehicles descending upon the embassy right after it happened. Many are reporting that a coupe may have begin this morning.

*Chinese tweets.
*Gawker
*Yahoo
*IBTimes
*Apparently this is a shot of the embassy with a large amount of cars in front of it.
*The diplomat
*Forbes
*Reuters
*National post.
*HuffPo



Loved the quote from the Reuters article:

“Waiting for confirmation on Kim Jong Un death rumors. Twitter is also reporting that ‘Jonas Brothers are the best band,’” Matt Binder wrote.

Forbes:

"Kim Jong Un dead or Kim Jong Undead. Remember kids, spacing is the difference between assassinations and zombies."

[spirit72]

I'm trying really hard to be surprised.

[sgreger1]

Still no word from the chinese media as it is nighttime right now. We'll see what happens once the news day begins over there. I'ts been a few hours so surprised nothing more has surfaced, maybe this was just the biggest troll of all time.
Honestly though it was pretty clear that the military would probably off him at some point. So wouldn't really be a surprise if this happened.

[sgreger1]

In other news:

Iran has pushed the Kill Switch and eliminated internet access to millions of its Citizens

[muddyfunkstar]

Hoax, apparently.

[sgreger1]

Update 5:45 p.m. Finally, some reporting. Even Twitter and Weibo can't out-rumor the intelligence community: A U.S. intelligence source told CNN that they'd been trying to nail down rumors of Kim Jong-Un's death for more than a week by the time the Internet caught up on Friday, and could find no evidence he'd died. Rather, an unnamed official told CNN's Security Clearance's Barbara Starr that intelligence analysis of the rumor had concluded it was a ploy

"to disrupt the economy of South Korea at a fragile time by suggesting things are going haywire up north." But the official hedged:

"With that society you can never be 100 percent sure," which is why these kinds of unsubstantiated claims grow legs in the first place, as one did Friday.