Kim Jong-un shown limping in video

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The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has been showing limping across the stage on the anniversary of his grandfather's death in footage

broadcast by state media.

The footage shows Kim limping quickly on to the centre of a large

stage in front a vast smiling portrait of his grandfather, the North Korean regime's founder, Kim Il-sung, who died 20 years ago.

State media and propaganda are highly choreographed in North Korea and depiction of weakness or illness on the part of the leadership is rare. Kim Il-sung, who ruled until his death in 1994, had a large and

inoperable tennis-ball sized growth on the back of his neck that meant

state media were forbidden from filming him from certain angles.

It was not immediately clear how Kim Jong-un developed the limp.

State media has shown the 30-year-old hereditary dictator conducting extensive

military visits on the east and west coasts in

recent weeks.

North Korea has threatened a fourth nuclear test in violation

of UN sanctions and has test-fired short-range missiles and rockets

three times in the past 10 days.