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Gout or Out: North Korea’s No-Show Leader Keeps ‘Em Guessing: Is Kim Jong Un Dead or What?
Daily Beast ^ | 10/12/2014 | Kevin Bleyer

Posted on 10/12/2014 5:29:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Just where did the Supreme Leader go? An undisclosed location? Or that great Sun Palace in the sky? Is it gout, or is he out? If we’re grasping at explanations for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s un-expected and un-explained absence over the past month, there can be only two: either he’s indisposed, or he’s deposed.

Actually, that’s not true. Considering the grand tradition of un-predictability in the Hermit Kingdom, there are countless other possibilities. The Supreme Leader may have been in a mountainside retreat, composing new condemnations against America’s comedians. Or in an underground bunker, yelling at his nation’s meteorologists for their inability to control the weather. Or off in a North Korean forest, riding one of those North Korean unicorns. Or—just as inconceivable and absurd—sentencing entire generations of North Korean families to labor camps. To say nothing of the distraction executing one’s own uncle can be.

I’ll even propose other bread crumbs to follow. Kim may be chaperoning George and Amal’s honeymoon. Or hiding out so he doesn’t get Ebola. I imagine him squirreled away in a cabin “somewhere north of Pyongyang,” bingeing on the novel of Gone Girl before he sees the movie. Spoiler alert, Kim: don’t let your wife read it too.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kimjongun; kimjongunmissing; northkorea
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1 posted on 10/12/2014 5:29:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Un dead? Then it’s begun!


2 posted on 10/12/2014 5:36:30 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: SeekAndFind

My grandmother used to say, “only the good die young.”

To which her son (my uncle) said, “in that case, you should live to be a hundred.”

Kim is too evil to die at such an early age...at least not of natural causes. He’ll probably live to a ripe old age.


3 posted on 10/12/2014 5:44:59 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: SeekAndFind

Not gout.
He wouldn’t have missed the family named celebration for that.

His indulgent lifestyle has caught up with him.
We know about the booze and food, but what else?

I doubt his sister will be allowed to assume power.

The key will be China’s role in the aftermath.


4 posted on 10/12/2014 6:04:40 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think he got Kill Bill treatment by his kid sister


5 posted on 10/12/2014 6:11:38 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe he’s hiking the Appalachian Trail.


6 posted on 10/12/2014 6:20:28 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe he’s hiking the Appalachian Trail.


7 posted on 10/12/2014 6:20:28 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: SeekAndFind

Kim Un Jin needs to see Richard Simmons. god, if any of us ate and drank like Um does, we would all be dead by 30.


8 posted on 10/12/2014 6:22:33 PM PDT by Cruz_West_Paul2016
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To: SeekAndFind

The dingo ate him. Poor baby.


9 posted on 10/12/2014 6:45:00 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s recovering from Dennis Rodman’s tender ministrations.


10 posted on 10/12/2014 7:07:10 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: G Larry

N Korea and China are engaged in a spat. NK has moved troops to the border with China, and they are exchanging nasty-grams. If they start shooting at each other, this will be one more crisis that will catch Obama and his college intern girls who run the State Dept. off guard.

We should get our troops out of S Korea. It’s wealthy enough and strong enough to take care of itself.


11 posted on 10/12/2014 7:45:42 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: beethovenfan

RE: The dingo ate him. Poor baby.

Or maybe with his size, he died of indigestion eating the dingo...


12 posted on 10/12/2014 7:46:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Was the dingo coated liberally with a layer of emmentaler cheese?

CC


13 posted on 10/12/2014 7:50:41 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Can you imagine Bambi yanking troops out of S.Korea before the elections?


14 posted on 10/12/2014 8:04:19 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: G Larry

Of course not. I can’t imagine King Obeyme doing anything that isn’t strictly in his own interest.


15 posted on 10/12/2014 8:07:04 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: SeekAndFind; Dog; caww

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/10/13/2014101300883.html

N Korea promises to annihilate source of propaganda balloons


16 posted on 10/12/2014 8:10:42 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: G Larry

>Not gout.
He wouldn’t have missed the family named celebration for that.<

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Ooh boy, I take it you never had gout.


17 posted on 10/12/2014 8:42:57 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: GeronL

Well N. Korea did fire at the baloons ,as was reported by S. Korean news...some of the ammunition or rockets landed in S, Korea....but as I understand S. Korea was not going to make issue about that because they do not want to disturb the meetings ahead.....

let me go check the sites I visit and see what they’re saying....be back after I check things out...


18 posted on 10/12/2014 8:53:09 PM PDT by caww
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To: SeekAndFind

Not to self: I don’t care.


20 posted on 10/12/2014 8:56:45 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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