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---(1) Was it really a mere accident? Was Kim Jong-il physically affected by this in anyway? Considering the possibility that Kim Jong-il might have sent a decoy train first and come much later in another train, which is not unusual for a security-obsessed dictator like him , somebody might have gone after him, after finding out his real train schedule.----

Interesting! I saw this very thing done by Park Chung Hee in South Korea. He was coming to meet with the I Corps commander at Camp Red Cloud. The highway was guarded all along his supposed route from Seoul and people ordered off the streets 2 blocks back along both sides. Park wasn't in the motorcade however!

He came by helicopter. First one landed and Park and two large bodyguards came out. Then another landed about ten minutes later and another Park with two bodyguards came out.

Park took power in a coup. He came across the Han river at 2 in the morning. Afterward he instituted marshal law with a 12 midnight curfew, that stayed in place until he was assassinated.

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When did this happen? In 70's? By mid 70's, there was a couple of highly publicized attempts on Park's life by N. Koreans, first with 30-man commando raid into his presidential office(Blue House,) second with an ethnic Korean in Japan as an assasin, in which his wife got killed. After that, he could be paranoid. Don't you think?

Kim Jong-il's paranoia would be an order or two of magnitude higher.:)