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Input: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (4th R) visits the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to pay tribute to founding President Kim Il Sung and former leader Kim Jong Il to mark the 61st anniversary of the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War, in this photo... 
  
 BEIJING/SEOUL North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is in firm control of his government but hurt his leg taking part in a military drill, a source with access to the secretive North's leadership said, playing down speculation over the 31-year-old's health and grip on power in the nuclear-capable nation. 
  
 North Korea's state media, which usually chronicle Kim's activities in great detail, have not mentioned any public appearances since he attended a concert with his wife on Sept. 3 and the official KCNA news agency indicated he did not attend an important political anniversary on Friday. 
  
 In the previous two years, Kim marked the anniversary of the founding of North Korea's Workers' Party with a post-midnight visit to the Pyongyang mausoleum where the bodies of his father and grandfather are interred. 
  
 But the report by KCNA did not mention Kim's name in a list of high-level party and military officials who attended an event at the mausoleum on Friday. A flower basket from Kim was placed at the mausoleum, it said. 
  
 The source with access to the North's leadership, who has close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing, said on Thursday that Kim had hurt his leg while inspecting military exercises. 
  
 "He ordered all the generals to take part in drills and he took part too. They were crawling and running and rolling around, and he pulled a tendon," the source told Reuters on condition of anonymity. 
  
 "He injured his ankle and knee around late August or early September while drilling because he is overweight. He limped around in the beginning but the injury worsened," the source said. 
  
 Kim, who has rapidly gained weight since coming to power after his father died of a heart attack in 2011, had been seen walking with a limp since an event with important officials in July, which would imply he may have aggravated an earlier injury. 
  
 Kim needs about 100 days to recuperate, said the source, whose information could not be independently verified. 
  
 "Kim Jong Un is in total control," said the source. 
  
 Kim's absence from public view is fuelling speculation over the state of his health and whether he may have been sidelined in a power struggle. 
  
 "The longer he remains out of the public eye, the more uncertainty about him, and the status of his regime, will grow," said Curtis Melvin, a researcher at the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. 
  
 NOT KIM'S FIRST ABSENCE 
  
 On Friday, South Korea's Unification Ministry said it believes Kim remains in charge, citing a message conveyed by him via a delegation visiting last weekend, and Pyongyang's continued public position that Kim leads the country. 
  
 "So it appears it is being normally ruled by Kim Jong Un," ministry spokesman Lim Byeong-cheol said. 
  
 Patrick Ventrell, a spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council, said the United States monitored events in North Korea extremely closely and had seen the reports about Kim Jong Un’s health, but played down speculation about upheaval in the country. 
  
 "Given that the (North Korean) regime is the most opaque on earth, it’s not surprising that there is very little reliable and publicly available information about this. Regarding rumors of a coup, as we have said previously, those appear to be false," he said. 
  
 North Korean officials have denied that Kim's public absence since early September is health-related and a U.S. official following North Korea said this week there were no indications he was seriously ill or in political trouble. 
  
 It remains unclear why a leg injury would keep Kim out of the public eye for so long, although this is not the first time he has been missing from view. 
  
 In June 2012, six months after coming to power, state media failed to report on or photograph him for 23 days. 
  
 Kim re-appeared the next month when he was reported attending a show at a dolphinarium. 
  
 Speculation that Kim's unusually long absence from public view may be due to ill health was fueled by a North Korean television report late last month that said he was suffering from "discomfort". 
  
 Some North Korea watchers also suggest that Kim may have been sidelined in a power struggle, a scenario they say was reinforced by the unexpected visit on Saturday of a high-level delegation to the closing ceremony of the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. 
  
 Another interpretation of that visit holds that it was meant to convey stability in Pyongyang. 
  
 The source with knowledge of Kim Jong Un's health said rumors of a coup were "rubbish". 
  
 "It would have to be a very subtle coup indeed not to disrupt international travel plans," said Andray Abrahamian of the Choson Exchange, a Singapore-based group running a program for North Koreans in Southeast Asia. 
  
 North Korea is a hereditary dictatorship centered on the ruling Kim family. Kim's sister, Kim Yo Jong, is known to have an official role within the ruling party. His brother, Kim Jong Chol, and his estranged half-brother are not in the public eye. 
  
 Kim was absent from a Sept. 25 meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly, or parliament, the first he has not attended since coming to power three years ago. 
  
 Abrahamian said it was unlikely Kim had been usurped. 
  
 "Kim Jong Un has always shared power with other key figures and even if the internal balance of power has shifted, it is unlikely that they would want to remove him, given his unmatchable symbolic value. Again, though, everyone is guessing," he said. 
  
 (Additional reporting by Ju-min Park in Seoul and Jeff Mason and David Brunnstrom in Washington; Writing by Tony Munroe; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Chizu Nomiyama) ||||| SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For the first time in three years, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wasn't on a list of dignitaries at a celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party. The apparent no-show will add to mounting speculation that something is amiss with the authoritarian leader, who hasn't been seen publicly in more than a month. 
  
 North Korean military personnel march as they visit the statues of late leaders, Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il on Mansudae to mark the 69th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party... (Associated Press) 
  
 North Koran defectors prepare to release balloons carrying leaflets condemning North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his government's policies, in Paju, near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Friday,... (Associated Press) 
  
 North Koran defectors prepare to release balloons carrying leaflets condemning North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his government's policies, in Paju, near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Friday,... (Associated Press) 
  
 North Koreans visit the statues of late leaders, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansudae to mark the 69th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang, North Korea Friday,... (Associated Press) 
  
 North Koreans offer flowers in front of the statues of late leaders, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansudae to mark the 69th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang,... (Associated Press) 
  
 An official state media dispatch listed senior government, military and party officials who paid their respects at an event marking the party's 69th anniversary, but not Kim. It said a flower basket with Kim's name on it was placed before statues of his father and grandfather, both of whom also ruled North Korea. State media earlier said that the might of the party "is growing stronger under the seasoned guidance of Marshal Kim Jong Un." 
  
 Kim, who is thought to be 31, hasn't been seen performing his customary public duties in state media since he attended a concert Sept. 3. He had been walking with a limp and was more overweight than usual in images that aired before that. An official documentary from late last month described him as dealing with "discomfort," which led to international speculation that he may be ill. 
  
 North Korea strictly controls information about its government and elite, so much of what happens in Pyongyang's inner circles is hidden from the eyes of outsiders and even many average North Koreans. This leaves media in South Korea and elsewhere to speculate, sometimes wildly, about what's really going on. Some reports indicate that Kim could have gout, diabetes — even, from a British news story, a cheese addiction— much of it based on that single line in the documentary and unidentified sources speaking to South Korean media. 
  
 South Korean officials are playing down the speculation. 
  
 In Seoul, Unification Ministry spokesman Lim Byeong Cheol told reporters Friday that Kim appears to still be in charge of key affairs. Lim noted that a high-level North Korean delegation conveyed a greetings message to South Korean President Park Geun-hye during their surprise visit to South Korea last week. Lim said Pyongyang's state media has continuously reported about Kim's leadership. 
  
 North Korea has said nothing publicly about Kim's absence. But it is not the first time he has taken a break from the media spotlight — Kim Jong Un wasn't seen publicly for about three weeks in 2012, South Korean officials say — and a senior North Korean official on last week's visit to the South told a South Korean official that Kim was fine. 
  
 Without the extended absence, Kim not showing up Friday would not be all that important or unusual. Such anniversaries are generally given more weight when they are landmark years. A high-profile celebration, for example, is expected for next year's 70th anniversary of the ruling party. 
  
 Because Pyongyang is publicly acknowledging Kim's "discomfort," many analysts believe that he's unlikely to be suffering from anything particularly serious. When his father, Kim Jong Il, suffered major health problems late in his rule, state media said nothing. Kim Jong Il is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008. 
  
 But each day that passes only adds to the speculation. Kim missed a meeting of the country's parliament late last month, and was absent again from a gathering this week to mark his late father's election as ruling party head. Kim has also not been seen in North Korean media reports greeting the athletes who returned from the Asian Games in the South, although they were given a lavish reception and heavy media coverage when they returned to the capital. 
  
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 AP writers Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul and Eric Talmadge in Tokyo contributed to this report. |||||
Output:
The might of the Workers' Party "is growing stronger under the seasoned guidance of Marshal Kim Jong Un," North Korean state media announced today—but the marshal's whereabouts are still unknown and he was apparently missing from a major event today. Top North Korean leaders visited a mausoleum to pay their respects to Kim's father and grandfather to mark the 69th anniversary of the party's founding, but for the first time since he became leader, Kim's name was not on the list of dignitaries in attendance, reports the BBC, whose Seoul correspondent says the no-show "increases the feeling that something untoward has happened." According to North Korean state media, a flower basket with Kim's name on it was placed in front of statues of his father and grandfather, reports the AP. While there are rumors that Kim has been toppled, some sources say the 31-year-old leader is merely suffering from gout, and a source close to Pyongyang's leadership tells Reuters that Kim hurt his leg after inspecting military exercises and deciding to join in. "He ordered all the generals to take part in drills and he took part, too. They were crawling and running and rolling around, and he pulled a tendon," the source says. "He injured his ankle and knee around late August or early September while drilling because he is overweight. He limped around in the beginning but the injury worsened," says the source, who claims Kim is still in "total control" but will need around 100 days to recuperate.