[N. Korea] Seoul denies rumor on NK leader's suicide-bomb death

Korea Times ^ | 2016-06-17 | Choi Sung-jin

[TigerLikesRooster]

Seoul denies rumor on NK leader's suicide-bomb death

By Choi Sung-jin

The Defense Ministry denied a rumor Friday that a suicide bomber has killed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. A foreign Internet site spread the rumor.

"As far as we know, that is not true," a ministry spokesman said during a press briefing. "The intelligence authorities believe the rumor has low credibility."

Asked whether Kim is alive, the official said: "We presume so."

A Unification Ministry official also said, "You can judge it by comments about the reliability of the Internet media company (the East Asia Tribune)," presuming it has produced a "fake news item" related to the North Korean leader.

Earlier, the East Asia Tribune, quoting a report by Korean Central TV (KCTV), said: "A women exploded a bomb while Kim Jong-un was attending an event held in Botonggang District in Pyongyang, and Kim was carried to hospital but was dead on arrival."

But KCTV has broadcast no such report.

[Mr. K]

“We think so”?????

What kind of answer is that

[seawolf101]

If Ding Dong is dead who gets to replace him.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

If true, then prayers for the woman.

[headstamp 2]

“If Ding Dong is dead who gets to replace him.”

Dennis Rodman.

[Fresh Wind]

We should show them our good will by donating Mohammed Hussein Obama to them.

[Tenacious 1]

I expect the pudgy egomaniac will eventually show up on tv examining that they did blow him up and kill him. But he is back from the dead. This proof that he is a god and is immortal.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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[The Sons of Liberty]

[N. Korea] Seoul denies rumor on NK leader's suicide-bomb death

Wishful thinking?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Here is the culprit's web-site and its profile. What we have here may be the Onion of the East.

http://www.eastasiatribune.com/

"East Asia Tribune (EAT) has grown into Asia’s largest and most trusted media organization with offices in 23 countries across the region and around the world. Headquartered in Shanghai, the EAT Group has media investments throughout Greater China and East Asia, and is a founding member of the Asia News Union Service."

What it printed:

http://www.eastasiatribune.com/north-asia/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-dead-after-apparent-suicide-attack/

North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un Dead After Apparent Suicide Attack

By East Asia Tribune - June 16, 2016

A report filed by North Korean state media earlier today announced that Kim Jong-un, chairman of the Worker’s Party of Korea and supreme leader of the DPRK, was killed in an explosion in Pyongyang which was believed to have been carried out by a female suicide bomber. Few details have been confirmed by North Korea’s state-owned media outlets, and the lack of foreign journalists based in Pyongyang makes corroborating the story hard. However, at this point the following facts have been revealed by KCTV (조선중앙텔레비죤):

The attack on Kim Jong-un was carried out at around 14:00 local time in the Potonggang District of Pyongyang. Mr Kim was attending the commemoration of a new state built on the banks of the Potong River when a female spectator burst past security barricades and sprinted in his direction. Mr Kim’s bodyguards drew their weapons, but before they had a chance to fire upon the female, she detonated a device which is believed to be a suicide belt. The ensuing blast seriously wounded Mr Kim, and despite being rushed to a nearby hospital he was pronounced dead on arrival. State media has been completely silent on the topic of who among the DPRK’s remaining leadership may succeed Mr Kim, who held the post of supreme leader after his father, Kim Jong-il, passed away in late 2011. There exists a power vacuum among North Korea’s elite, with the younger Kim conducting a series of purges aimed at consolidating his power in recent times. Foreign media outlets have speculated that Kim’s sister, Ms Kim Yo-jung, who currently holds the position of deputy director of the Korean Worker’s Party, is a leading candidate. “Some analysts claim that during Kim Jong-Un’s lengthy absence from the public eye in 2014, that she may have been running the country.”

The identity of the female suicide bomber remains a mystery, and few details have emerged that shed any light on her identity. Witnesses to the blast were interviewed on Korean state media but were mostly too consumed by grief to share any useful information. One exception was a younger North Korean man who was interviewed, who reported that the female bomber was ‘exceptionally beautiful’. “She had half the men in the crowd watching her,” he commented, before his interview was abruptly terminated by KCTV. There has been speculation by some North Korean experts that the woman involved in the suicide attack could have been earlier rescued from a secret brothel operating to service Pyongyang’s elite.

[struggle]

If Kim Jong Eun was dead, China would have moved already.

[wastedyears]

Well that’s too bad.

[elcid1970]

Spot on. This is how the little riceball proves to the world that he has more lives than a cat and that his decades long career of totalitarian despotism is just beginning.

[puppypusher]

I have an idea.We can take all of Obama’s Muslim imports from Syria and ship them to North Korea.Out of that group there should be at least one terrorist in the crowd.

Afterall why should we enjoy all of the largess.

[MUDDOG]

Opelation Varkylie.

[Stosh]

Probably take several suicide bombers to take out that whale.

[freedomlover]

Hopefully Sum Ting Wong

[The Sons of Liberty]

A report filed by North Korean state media earlier today announced that Kim Jong-un, chairman of the Worker’s Party of Korea and supreme leader of the DPRK, was killed in an explosion in Pyongyang

If it is true, then one hell of an internal power struggle is underway to become his successor. An already unstable state will be even more so, until it is resolved.

[lee martell]

Don’t think it’s beyond any paranoid dictator to fake his death just to study which peasants rejoice the loudest. The plan may be to have ‘a sudden and complete recovery’, then wage all out vengance on those who ‘want to see him dead’.

[lee martell]

My Chinese military history is rather sketchy. Are you saying
North Korea was once an actual province of China, and one they would seek to reclaim, in the absence of Kim Jong Un?
I already presumed North Korea held the role of China’s Junk Yard Dog on anti-American rhetoric.