Editor's Note: This is part of a symposium asking what happens if Kim Jong-un died. To read the other parts of the series click here. The high tide of speculation over Kim Jong-un’s health, briefly rumored to be in critical condition, ebbed following his reappearance in public on May 1, 2020. The event reconfirmed not only the extremely clandestine nature of the North Korean regime but also the difficulty of ascertaining information about the hermit kingdom, particularly its top leader.