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North Korean Leader's Younger Sister Alive: Source
Yonhap News (South Korea) ^ | February 7, 2005

Posted on 02/07/2005 7:50:40 AM PST by HAL9000

SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Yonhap) -- The younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who is reported to have committed suicide, is "alive and well," an informed government source said Monday.

There have been reports in Japan that Kim Kyong-hui, 59, a senior member of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party, recently took her own life.

"Such reports are groundless," said the source, asking not to be named. "Kim remains alive."

The source, however, did not elaborate.

He also brushed aside reports that she had been injured in a traffic accident last year.

In late October, Japan's daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that she was receiving intensive medical treatment from French doctors after her sedan was wrecked in a car accident in Pyongyang earlier in the month.

The source, however, added that she had received medical treatment for alcoholism in France last year.

Kim is married to Chang Song-taek, a close confidant of the North Korean leader and senior member of the Workers' Party.

She is reportedly in charge of running the communist country's light industrial sector.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kimjongil; kimkyonghui; korea; northkorea

1 posted on 02/07/2005 7:50:41 AM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
And they found her they concluded she committed suicide from a bullet in the back of the head.
2 posted on 02/07/2005 8:18:22 AM PST by gulfcoast6 (I can do anything through Christ who gives me strength.)
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It is confusing to decide whom to believe. Last year, a son of No. 2 man in N. Korea was reported at first to have defected to U.S. Also by a Japanese newspaper. S. Korean government source had little faith in it. Then the source later reportedly said that he was indeed missing in N. Korea and N. Koreans were searching for him. It would not surprise me if Kim's sister turned out to be dead.

3 posted on 02/07/2005 8:42:07 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; OahuBreeze; yonif; risk; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; ...

Ping!


4 posted on 02/07/2005 8:42:43 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: HAL9000; All

Is that same lady that was being treated for alcohlism I be drinking too if my brother is little Kim

I think belonging to this family would cause anybody take Adult beverage of drug of his/her choice


5 posted on 02/07/2005 10:48:55 AM PST by SevenofNine ("Not everybody , in it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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Super SOJU !

...and in other news...Song Hye-Rim & Ko Yong-Hui are still believed to be dead...more as it develops...

6 posted on 02/07/2005 6:07:57 PM PST by Khurkris (That sound you hear coming from over the horizon...thats me laughing.)
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Still developing news

Franco still dead
Arafat still dead LOL!


7 posted on 02/07/2005 7:07:28 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Not everybody , in it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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