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Kim Jong-il may be visiting China: sources
Yonhap News (South Korea) ^ | January 9, 2006

Posted on 01/09/2006 12:08:16 PM PST by HAL9000

BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may have come to China early Tuesday morning secretly aboard a special train, sources here said, citing unusually tight security similar to that seen during Kim's China visit in 2004.

A source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a local official told him on Monday evening a special train was about to arrive from North Korea early Tuesday.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; kimjongil; kimjongiltrain; korea; mysterytrain; northkorea

1 posted on 01/09/2006 12:08:19 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

It will be a short train, painted yellow.

At every stop, a fat woman will look under it before they go again.


2 posted on 01/09/2006 12:11:04 PM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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To: HAL9000
Kim Jong-il may be visiting China: sources

oh goody, maybe there will be another massive train explosion...that's if he still travels by train

Doogle

3 posted on 01/09/2006 12:11:48 PM PST by Doogle (USAF...8thAF...4077th TFW...408th MMS...Ubon Thailand..."69"..Night Line Delivery,AMMO)
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To: HAL9000

China: "How's the nuclear program coming along?"

Korea: "We need more time. We need food. We need money."

China: "Too bad Clinton isn't President anymore."

Korea: "I know. I sent Bill some Cuban cigars for the new year."

China: "We invited him for a couple of weeks of whoring."

Korea: "Then he'll have some use for those cigars I sent him then..."

[LAUGHTER]

China: "I hate President Bush."

Korea: "Me too."


4 posted on 01/09/2006 12:13:38 PM PST by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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Kim Jong-il may be visiting China: sources


BECAUSE I'M SO WRONELY!

5 posted on 01/09/2006 12:18:57 PM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: HAL9000

Kim gets off the train:

"Hey, how did you guys get all this.......stuff? Don't you all still believe all that wealth distribution and communism you brain washed us with all those years ago?
That kid that just walked by me was wearing Levi's jeans and had a mp3 player!"

Chinese break out in laughter.

"Oh Kim, ofcourse we do....."

More laughter and they all get in new limousine.

"Oh Kim, before we drop you off at the Hilton, I need to stop by the Chanel store at the designer mall, the wife said she wants a new purse."

(phone ring)

"Heyro, ahh yess, sorry Kim this will just take a moment, its the Mercedez dealer. Ohh, you have the new SL 55 AMG in? Yes, I'll take 3."


6 posted on 01/09/2006 12:26:58 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: HAL9000

"The Love Train"


7 posted on 01/09/2006 12:35:39 PM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: HAL9000

Wouldn't it be a hoot if there were a coup while he's gone, and he's not allowed to return.


8 posted on 01/09/2006 12:39:00 PM PST by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
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To: ASA Vet

No because the chicoms would probably harbor him and probably have access to highly restricted areas even Rumsfield didnt have access to, Say Western Hills for example, The so called Chinese Pentagon. Well honestly maybe not, But hed probably still live the life anyway with his secret swiss bank accounts he filled with counterfeit US dollars, drugs and counterfeit merchandise and lets not forget he is still welcome in other kommunist countries.


9 posted on 01/09/2006 1:29:54 PM PST by Petey139
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To: HAL9000

North Korea's top leader Kim Jong Il, right, shakes hands with Chinese special envoy Tang Jiaxuan during their meeting in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea, on Wednesday July 13, 2005. Kim Jong Il has traveled to China on a rare trip outside his country, a South Korean military intelligence official said Tuesday Jan. 10, 2005. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Ren Libo)


10 posted on 01/09/2006 7:49:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Update:

By KWANG-TAE KIM
Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has traveled to China on a rare trip outside his country, a South Korean military intelligence official said Tuesday.

The official told The Associated Press he received the information from intelligence inside China. The official spoke on condition his name not be used because of the sensitivity of the information.

"We confirmed he went to China," the official said. "We don't know why."

China's foreign ministry said it could not confirm the report and had no immediate comment.

Kim, who seldom travels abroad, last visited China in April 2004 for a summit with Chinese leaders. North Korea and China, both communist countries, have traditionally had close ties.

Chinese President Hu Jintao visited North Korea in October.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported earlier in a dispatch out of Beijing that the reclusive North Korean leader's train had crossed the border into northeastern China amid tight security. The agency did not say where it got its information.

The visit comes at a sensitive time for North Korea, which remains at odds with the United States over stalled international talks aimed at getting Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

China is under pressure from the United States and other governments to use its leverage as North Korea's main ally and aid donor to push Pyongyang for concessions.

North Korea on Monday sent its highest-level signal yet that the nuclear talks are unlikely to resume soon, repeating its demand that the U.S. drop sanctions to end the impasse.

"Under the present situation it is illogical to discuss with the U.S., the assailant, the issue of dismantling the nuclear deterrent built up by the DPRK for self-defense," an unnamed Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

DPRK refers to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the communist state's official name.

North Korea and the United States have been engaged since 2003 in multi-party talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear programs. Though the talks also involve China, Japan, South Korea and Russia, their progress is usually determined by the existing level of tension between North Korea and Washington.

In September, the United States imposed sanctions on a bank in the Chinese territory of Macau, alleging it helped the North distribute counterfeit currency and engage in other illicit activities.

The next month, Washington sanctioned eight North Korean companies it claimed were fronts for proliferating weapons of mass destruction.

North Korea's increasing anger comes as U.S. officials have been taking a harder verbal line. Alexander Vershbow, the new U.S. ambassador to Seoul, last month called North Korea's government a "criminal regime." On Thursday, his boss, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, called it a "dangerous regime."


11 posted on 01/09/2006 9:22:43 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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