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halogamer1989 on 28 October 2008

Kim Jong-Il's son lines up French brain surgeon: report

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TOKYO (AFP) — The eldest son of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il is believed to have visited a Paris brain surgeon who apparently flew to Pyongyang to treat his father, Japanese television reported Monday.

Speculation about Kim's health has swirled since he failed to appear at a key anniversary parade in early September, and US and South Korean officials say the 66-year-old recluse is believed to have suffered a stroke.

Japan's Fuji Television showed footage from Paris of a man it identified as Kim Jong-Nam, the eldest son of the North Korean leader.

"He is believed to have met with a French brain surgeon, who later departed from Paris for Pyongyang under North Korean escort," the network said.

Kim spent two hours in the hospital last week where he is believed to have visited its neurosurgery department, it added.

As he left the hospital, the man -- stout, and clad in a dark pin-striped suit with a red tie -- did not reply to questions about Kim Jong-Il's health, only getting into his car with a slight smile and waving.

The network said a French brain surgeon then appeared at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport two days later and said in French he was going to Beijing, the usual connection point for Pyongyang.

Fuji Television did not identify the doctor and blurred his face.

It said the doctor did not deny he was going to Pyongyang and was taken to the airport in a car owned by the North Korean mission to Paris-based UNESCO.

North Korea has denied that Kim Jong-Il has health problems, and last week denounced Japanese newspapers for reporting that North Korea was on the brink of a major announcement.

Kim Jong-Nam is the son of Kim Jong-Il and well-known actress Sung Hae-Rim, according to cousins who defected to the West.

He speaks fluent French from his time studying in Switzerland.

He was very publicly expelled from Japan in 2001 after entering on a fake Dominican Republic passport and saying he wanted to go to Tokyo Disneyland.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jc1dyS1nZJvvV-I3gBPsq-iJfg2A

 

Looks like our Team America star might be on his last hurrah.

 

 

(cough...good riddance...cough)



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gomezc on 28 October 2008

Sounds like Castro all over again...these people will never die.



akuma587 on 28 October 2008

We took North Korea off the terrorist state list, FYI.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

halogamer1989 on 28 October 2008

@Akuma - I know. Kim Jong-Il is gravely ill. Imo, the NK's are hiding that he is already dead or soon will be.



steven787 on 28 October 2008

I hate how everybody hates Jong-Il.  I've met the man, as you can see in my Avatar, when I was timetravelling.  I went to 1992 to help overthrow him but when I met him, I realized he is just misunderstood... and lonely.



I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.

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halogamer1989 on 28 October 2008
steven787 said:

I hate how everybody hates Jong-Il.  I've met the man, as you can see in my Avatar, when I was timetravelling.  I went to 1992 to help overthrow him but when I met him, I realized he is just misunderstood... and lonely.

Classic :)



gomezc on 28 October 2008
steven787 said:

I hate how everybody hates Jong-Il.  I've met the man, as you can see in my Avatar, when I was timetravelling.  I went to 1992 to help overthrow him but when I met him, I realized he is just misunderstood... and lonely.

Hahaha yea, poor lil' guy...

Yea, NK is indeed off the terror list.  This makes them innocent of their past transgressions and possible future ones if things don't go their way...

 

I truely hope that one day the people in that country will receive an abundance of food and some true freedoms.  No one there deserves their constrivtive lifestyle and fear of turning a cheek to their own government which would most certainly mean death.

 



halogamer1989 on 28 October 2008

Apparently, his sons are more pro-Western and when they step up I could see formalizations w/ the U.S. I agree gomezc, that fat pervert just needs to have his "servant girls" give him a swift kick...



Coca-Cola on 28 October 2008
steven787 said:

I hate how everybody hates Jong-Il.  I've met the man, as you can see in my Avatar, when I was timetravelling.  I went to 1992 to help overthrow him but when I met him, I realized he is just misunderstood... and lonely.

is this Ted Turner?

 



Coca-Cola on 28 October 2008
akuma587 said:
We took North Korea off the terrorist state list, FYI.

And they threatend to blow up S. Korea yesterday