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The Korean won fell to 1,229.59 per dollar after an unconfirmed CNN report said Kim Jong Un was in grave danger after surgery, with an intraday low of 1,241.15. Markets reacted to conflicting reports about his health.
Geopolitical uncertainty around North Korea triggered a short-term selloff in the won. The move is a sentiment shock and has no lasting bearing on feed commodity supply or demand.
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Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.