N. Korea makes no mention of leader’s 40th birthday | Yonhap News Agency

SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Yonhap) — North Korean state media outlets remained silent on the presumed 40th birthday of their leader Kim Jong-un on Monday. The Korean Central News Agency, Rodong Sinmun, Korean Central Television and Korean Central Broadcasting Station have yet to make any report on Kim’s birthday. Kim is known to have been born on Jan. 8, 1984, though the North has not officially confirmed the date. Earlier in the day, state media outlets carried reports on Kim’s visit to a newly built chicken factory where he called for increasing poultry production for a “substantial change” in the people’s standards of living. Kim was accompanied by his daughter, known as Ju-ae, which marked her rare public appearance at an…