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"Is you is or is you ain't," Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five asked in a 1944 song of the same title. That could be the question asked today about North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un.

It started in China on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to Twitter, that said he the new North Korean leader had been assassinated while in the North Korean embassy in Beijing, several news sources reported.

The Telegraph of London reported that some tweets claimed if not dead, then some sort of coup had been mounted against Kim.

This is not the first time tweeters have prematurely killed someone off, as Mashable notes -– remember Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy and Fidel Castro?

As of late Friday, no word had emerged from North Korea or China to confirm or deny an assassination, the National Post reported.