In a quiet but tense corridor of South Korea’s National Assembly, intelligence officials and lawmakers gathered for a closed-door meeting on a Friday morning, their conversation strictly off the record. The subject was not a new missile launch or a diplomatic overture, but something more visceral and unsettling: a wave of unverified social media rumors claiming that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un might have died. According to sources who were present at the briefing, the National Intelligence Service, or NIS, delivered a blunt assessment: these rumors are false. The speculation had erupted on overseas social media platforms earlier in the…

builds, there is a sense that this solo project marks an important new chapter for the artist. With ‘DELIRIUM,’ she is stepping into a bold, expansive sound, one that is no longer confined to any single genre or expectation. In the end, ‘False Gods’ invites us to look at the difference between the idols we inherit and the truths we discover. It asks us to be brave enough to let go of the things that do not grow with us, even when letting go feels like exile. And it reminds us that change, for all its loneliness, is also an…