Kim Jong-Un will not attend the funeral of the Queen on Monday, and a North Korean ambsassador will instead head to the Westminster service.
Delegates from the country will attend, but the tyrannical dictator himself won't be in attendance at Westminster Abbey. Leaders from Taliban Afghanistan, Venezuela and Syria were also not invited.
The man responsible for vicious labour camps, people in his country going hungry, and a dangerous nuclear weapons programme is on the same list of no-shows as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The UK has had relations with North Korea since 2000 and there is even an embassy located in Ealing, London.
President of neighbouring South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol, is set to be in London for the funeral.
Whitehall sources confirmed to The Sun that ambassadors from North Korea were invited to be among the list of VIPs and dignitaries in attendance, which includes US President Joe Biden.
Kim has a difficult relationship with the West, due in part to his nuclear weapons programme, the testing for which is widely believed to be resuming shortly.
Recently, the country put into place an alarming "irreversible" law that made clear the scenarios in which nuclear weapons can be used.
North Korea is already a nuclear state, according to its constitution, but the legislation change said it can use them in response to an attack or an invasion.
As reported by state TV KCNA, Kim said in a speech: "The utmost significance of legislating nuclear weapons policy is to draw an irretrievable line so that there can be no bargaining over our nuclear weapons."
Reports from within the country are likely to have factored into the decision not to invite Kim to the funeral. Only recently did more shocking reports emerge of women starving in labour camps, their families unable to bring them food due to the restrictions in place for Covid.
Despite the horror reports, Alba Party general secretary Chris McEleny likened the commemoration of the Queen's death as akin to the mourning of Kim Jong-il's death in 2011, as reported by the Scottish Daily Express.
Calling for an independent Scottish Republic, he said: "Sort of thing that when Kim Jong-il died that was made fun of on the British news and used to highlight the lack of democracy in North Korea."
The Queen's body will lie in state in Parliament for the next four days, before the funeral on Monday, September 19.
