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.
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.
Ping!
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
...and in other news...Song Hye-Rim & Ko Yong-Hui are still believed to be dead...more as it develops...
Still developing news
Franco still dead
Arafat still dead LOL!
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