NORTH KOREAN DESPOT KIM JONG-UN 'EXECUTED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FOR WATCHING SOUTH KOREAN SOAPS'

 Despot Kim Jong-un has executed 10 senior officials in North Korea - including some for watching South Korean SOAPS.

Spooks from the south of the peninsula have also worked out why the north's tyrannical leader disappeared from public view for 40 days - he was suffering from an ankle cyst.

The portly totalitarian was suffering from Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome, a compression of the tibial nerve in the foot, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) concluded.

Spy chiefs revealed details of the chubby dictator's disappearance in a behind closed doors hearing for parliamentarians in Seoul.

They understand the cyst in Kim's right ankle was caused by a combination of obesity, smoking and a busy work schedule and that he was operated on by European doctors in September or October.

They also claimed that some 200 military officers had been demoted for "underperformance" and that 50 executions had been carried out in North Korea so far this year - including officials linked to flabby Kim's executed uncle Jang Song-Thaek.

The corpulent autocrat, who came to power in 2011 following his father's death from a heart attack, had not been seen or 40 days before making a trio of public appearances in the space of a week.

He was spotted walking with a limp in July and is said to have gained weight because of his love of Emmenthal cheese and Johnny Walker whisky.

culled from Mirror Online