Does It Matter If Kim Jong-un Is Not In Pyongyang?

It seems like some in the media are trying to make this out to be a big deal:

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who has not been seen in public for more than a month, is believed to be staying outside Pyongyang, South Korea’s defence chief said Tuesday.

“As far as I know, (Kim) is staying at a certain place north of Pyongyang,” Defence Minister Han Min-Koo said when lawmakers visited his office for a regular parliamentary inspection of military affairs, without elaborating on Kim’s whereabouts.

“I have received reliable information from our defence intelligence headquarters,” Han was quoted as saying by the Yonhap news agency. There was no official comment from the defence ministry.  [AFP]

You can read the rest at the link, but the Kim family has houses all across North Korea and if he did have some kind of medical procedure done, the regime may want to keep him away from prying eyes.  Going to a retreat away from Pyongyang for a while then makes sense. Maybe we should send Dennis Rodman in to find out?