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N.Korea Says Kim Jong-il Was Alive Until the Night of Dec. 16
Chosun Ilbo ^ | 12/26/11

Posted on 12/26/2011 8:57:19 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

N.Korea Says Kim Jong-il Was Alive Until the Night of Dec. 16

Kim Jong-il was alive signing official documents until the night of Friday, Dec. 16, North Korea's official Rodong Sinmun daily claimed Sunday. "At the late hour of 9:13 p.m., one worker received a document signed by the general." The daily added Kim foresaw problems in the distribution of herring and pollack to Pyongyang residents to celebrate the New Year and signed the document to ease obstacles.

It is unusual for the official media to go into such detail, suggesting that the paper was indirectly trying to counter suspicions in South Korea and Japan that the official story of Kim's death on a moving train on Saturday, Dec. 17 did not add up.

One expert on North Korea said, "The North seems to be trying to beef up the story that Kim was working for the people until the last moment."

North Korea has not directly denied reports abroad that cast doubt on the official story. South Korea's National Intelligence Service and military say the train that was supposedly taking Kim to one of his on-the-spot guidance tours when he died never left Yongsong Station in Pyongyang between Dec. 16 and 18.

Some North Korean defectors say Kim died at home at around 8 p.m. on the Friday, while Japan's TV Asahi reported he was found dead at his summer villa near Pyongyang at around 1 a.m. on the Saturday morning.

The Rodong Sinmun said new leader Kim Jong-un handed down a document with the same fish-related instructions as the one bearing his father's final signature on Dec. 18, a day after Kim senior's death, and with that single gesture "revealed his intention to rule the country based on his father's wishes." It urged all North Koreans to follow them as well.

englishnews@chosun.com / Dec. 26, 2011 12:32 KST


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: death; kimjongil; kimjongildead; nkorea

1 posted on 12/26/2011 8:57:24 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

P!


2 posted on 12/26/2011 8:57:56 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Trying to beat Arafat’s record.


3 posted on 12/26/2011 8:58:55 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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Kim foresaw problems in the distribution of herring and pollack to Pyongyang residents to celebrate the New Year and signed the document to ease obstacles.

One more thing to add to the impressive list of the greatest humanitarian the world has ever known.

[of course this is sarcasm]

4 posted on 12/26/2011 9:03:51 PM PST by John123 (US$ - I owe you nothing. Euro - Who owes you nothing.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

One lie leads to another. They tell whopper after whopper, they need a Control Data Corporation super computer just to keep track of them all so that any new statement does not contradict earlier statements. Still, they will screw up BIG TIME one of these days with a glaring contradiction. Then some flunky at the KCNA news organization will be sent to the camps for not checking past lies so that everything fit well as planned. Jerks.


5 posted on 12/26/2011 10:59:44 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Many attempts were made over the years to kill Kim Jong il. This one may finally have succeeded.)
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Or they could just borrow the ticker-tape thingy from the movie “1984” where all the workers are making edits on the various speeches.


6 posted on 12/26/2011 11:04:47 PM PST by 21twelve
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Maybe he end up dead in bed of Russia hooker very embarrasing LOL!


7 posted on 12/27/2011 12:00:45 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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