He's probably alive....but he won't be for much longer the way he's chowing through all that rich and fatty food, Fatboy Kim already looks like Jabba the Hutt, I'm amazed he can even walk around with his gout, bad knees or whatever's afflicting him. He's gonna croak at some point the way he scarfs through all that artery-clogging food.
Kim is more a symbol than anything...he's just a political puppet while the real power players are behind the throne, the generals, political "advisors" etc. etc.....gotta love Soviet/Chinese style politics.
Some people eat a LOT of food when extremely unhappy or under stress, it's a momentary bout of happiness for them from the shitty situation they find themselves in, and I wonder if that's what drives
Kim's eating habits....that or he really is just a glutton psycho. Or both.
If and when he does croak? I predict something along the lines of "The Death of Stalin", but that's just a wild guess.