North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is either dead, brain dead or just fine, depending on which Asian media report you believe.

The dictator, nicknamed “Rocket Man” by President Trump for his love of missile launches and nukes, underwent a stent procedure earlier this month that started a swirl of international speculation.

A Hong Kong broadcast network claimed Saturday that Kim died, citing a “very solid source.” A Japanese magazine, meanwhile, reported late Friday that he is in “a vegetative state.” On Kim’s home turf, the North Korean media has acted as if everything is perfectly normal.

Other unconfirmed reports, attributed to senior Community Party sources in Beijing, claimed Kim succumbed when his surgeon botched the minor operation because his hands were shaking so badly.

The portly leader’s absence from Saturday’s much-ballyhooed 88th anniversary of the birth of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army further fueled the death talk.

Earlier in the week, President Trump downplayed reports that Kim is ill, and an official familiar with U.S. intelligence said the government had no reason to conclude he was seriously ill.

Still, the whispers grew louder when China dispatched medical experts to help treat Kim, Reuters reported Friday.

One Chinese medic told the Japanese magazine that the leader clutched his chest and fell to the ground on a visit to the countryside earlier this month. A doctor accompanying Kim performed CPR and took him to a nearby hospital, where apparently the procedure was performed.

If Kim is dead, official verification might only come from North Korea state media, which delayed the announcements of the deaths of Kim’s despotic predecessors, his father and grandfather, for up to four days.

“When it comes to North Korea you can never be too sure until you hear the news from the country itself,” said David Maxwell, a North Korea specialist at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “But it’s worth noting that there are 6.5 million smartphones in North Korea now and even though the coverage is within the country, information has a way of getting out faster now than it did in the past.”

Maxwell theorized the coronavirus could have been a contributing factor if Kim turns out to be dead, especially since he has underlying conditions such as obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. North Korea has claimed zero COVID-19 cases but could be lying, Maxwell said.

Kim has been supreme leader since 2011, when his father, Kim Jong Il reportedly died of a heart attack. Kim Jong Il had succeeded his father, Kim Il Sung, who died of a heart attack in 1994.

As for Kim’s potential successor, the smart money is on his little sister, Kim Yo Jong, 31. She is thought to be the youngest child of Kim Jong Il’s mistress Ko Yong Hui, who also gave birth to Kim and his older brother, Kim Jong Chol.

Besides being Kim’s chief aide, Kim Yo Jong is really the only family member left to take over.

Kim had his older half-brother assassinated in Malaysia in 2017. And Kim Jong Chol, who is three years older and known to be a superfan of Eric Clapton, was once dismissed as too “girlish” by their father to run the murderous regime.

“It would be unprecedented and shocking for there to be a female Great Leader but it wouldn’t be heresy,” Sung-Yoon Lee, a North Korea expert at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Diplomacy, told The Post. “The need to keep power in the family trumps everything, including any traditions of chauvinism or misogyny in North Korea.”

North Korea will likely shut down every inch of the border in the event of Kim’s death, Maxwell said, and the country’s Politburo will meet behind closed doors to designate his successor.

Both Kim Jong Un and his sister spent part of their childhood in Swiss boarding schools, where they learned English and had more than a taste of Western life.

Additional reporting by Jon Levine and Melanie Gray

Kim Jong Un weighs about as much as the average-size sumo wrestler, smokes like a chimney and comes from a family with a history of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

North Korea’s dictator, believed to be 36, tips the scales at just about 300 pounds but stands only 5 feet, 6 inches. And he is a chain smoker, puffing on four packs of coffin sticks a day.

The blubber comes from Kim’s love of cheese and wine, Newsweek reported a few years ago. He once had to take a breather from public life after he gobbled too much Emmental cheese that he had ordered from Switzerland. Six years ago, his booze budget topped $30 million, according to a UN report.

In 2012, the magazine reported, Kim packed on so much weight that he developed a cyst on his ankle and required surgery to remove it.

Kim ascended as supreme leader in 2011 after his father, Kim Jong Il, reportedly died from a heart attack at the age of 70. And Kim Jong Il took over the country in 1994 after his father, Kim Il-Sung, dropped dead of a heart attack at his Pyongyang residence. The 82-year-old dictator had led North Korea since he founded it in 1948.

Kim Jong Il was a smoker and a diabetic, too. He once commissioned North Korean scientists to duplicate his favorite cigarettes, Rothman’s, with tobacco grown in Africa — even as hundreds of thousands of North Koreans died of starvation in the 1990s, biologist Kim Hyeongsoo told a human rights conference a few years ago.

Kim Hyeongsoo noted that Kim Jong Il dispatched dozens of scientists to create aphrodisiacs for himself. He had a harem of young girlfriends and was a heavy drinker and loved processed food. During Kim Jong II’s 17 years in power, North Korea was often the world’s largest purchaser of Hennessy Paradis cognac. The leader also reportedly sent government aides to Beijing to pick up Big Macs at McDonald’s.

Kim Jong Il’s penchant for disappearing from public for weeks at a time fueled speculation about his ill health. In 2007, he returned from an absence looking thinner and with significantly less hair, leading to rumors that he had suffered a heart attack.

When Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke in 2008, Chinese and French doctors helped treat him, according to South Korean media reports at the time. Three years later, he died of a heart attack, although there are rumors that he died much earlier from complications related to diabetes.

The Kim family medical history also included other mysterious illnesses.  During his nearly 50 years in power, Kim Il-Sung was pictured on trips outside the country with a tennis ball-sized growth on the back of his neck. The growth was carefully hidden in photographs that appeared of the ruler in North Korea, according to the Japan Times.

Donald Trump Jr. took a swipe at Hillary Clinton Saturday, joking to his Twitter followers that she was behind the death of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The remark came in response to a Clinton jab at his father, President Trump, for his “sarcastic” suggestion to Americans that disinfectant could be used to treat COVID-19.

“Please don’t poison yourself because Donald Trump thinks it could be a good idea,” Clinton said.

Trump Jr. responded, adding a wink emoji: “We know, we know … poison is reserved for a long list of people like Jeffrey Epstein … and servers. Am I right?”

Bill Clinton was known for his long relationship with Epstein. Flight logs show the former president took at least 26 rides on the billionaire sex offender’s plane — dubbed the Lolita Express — according to records obtained by Fox News.

Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. He was found dead inside his jail cell in New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug. 10. The medical examiner later ruled his death a suicide, though significant questions remain.

Multiple guards who were supposed to check on his well-being throughout the night fell asleep on the job, and security cameras footage from outside the cell was also unusable. Former New York medical examiner Michael Baden said autopsy evidence suggested the true cause of death of “homicide.”