North Korea leader Kim Jong-un has died after his health declined following heart surgery earlier this month, according to a reporter in China.
Hong Kong-backed news channel HKSTV's vice director Qing Feng, who's apparently the niece of a former Chinese foreign minister, posted the news on Chinese messaging app Weibo.
The woman put the report on the social media app for her nearly 15 million followers to read, citing a "very solid source". Other unconfirmed reports, attributed to senior party sources in Beijing, said an operation to insert a stent into his heart went wrong because "the surgeon’s hands were shaking so badly".