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U.S.: Kim Jong Il may have suffered stroke
MSNBC ^ | 9/9/2008

Posted on 09/09/2008 7:25:04 AM PDT by John Robie

SEOUL, South Korea - A U.S. intelligence official said North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 66, may have suffered a stroke, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

A U.S. intelligence official said there is reason to believe Kim Jong Il is sick after he failed to show up at a North Korean national celebration on Tuesday. That official and another U.S. source spoke on condition of anonymity to describe sensitive intelligence gathering.

Earlier, South Korea's largest daily, the Chosun Ilbo, said Kim collapsed last month, citing a South Korean diplomatic source in Beijing.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: geopolitics; kimjongil; nkorea; northkorea; stroke
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1 posted on 09/09/2008 7:25:05 AM PDT by John Robie
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To: John Robie
"I still so ronery."


2 posted on 09/09/2008 7:29:20 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: John Robie; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; endthematrix; ..

Ping!


3 posted on 09/09/2008 7:32:04 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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To: John Robie

There was an article yesterday that said he died in 2003 & that there’s a couple of look alikes doing stand in work.


4 posted on 09/09/2008 7:32:40 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: John Robie

How would anybody know? His personality was practically catatonic anyway.


5 posted on 09/09/2008 7:36:08 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: John Robie

Wow, who takes over if he moves on to the big rice patty in the sky?


6 posted on 09/09/2008 7:36:19 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Obama's mama was a Seattle Marxist, trained him, thus he is a Marxist. A communist.)
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To: John Robie

A stroke?

How would you know?


7 posted on 09/09/2008 7:37:49 AM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: John Robie

Yesterday, he died in 2003.


8 posted on 09/09/2008 7:38:18 AM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (Palin 2008 (oh yeah, and McCain too))
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To: John Robie

Call me the most naive and idealistic person on Earth, but I sure hope to see some kind of reunification with South Korea (on the South’s terms, of course) some day.

I know there would be serious, serious hurdles to overcome, economically, and geopolitically. Could the South handle it? Would China ever allow it?

I can dream, for a moment, though.


9 posted on 09/09/2008 7:38:46 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: John Robie

Probably from repeated masterbation


10 posted on 09/09/2008 7:39:28 AM PDT by albie
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

He got better


11 posted on 09/09/2008 7:40:23 AM PDT by Kowdawg
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To: John Robie; All
Has anyone informed Comrade Rangel of the 'terrible' news??

From the website of the Workers World Party, workers.org:

"On July 9 (1994), Workers World Party Chairperson Sam Marcy sent the following statement to Comrade Kim Jong Il, the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea and the State Funeral Committee of President Kim Il Sung.":

"Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il ...

The National Committee of Workers World Party extends our deepest condolences on the passing of the great leader of the Korean people, Comrade President Kim Il Sung.

Comrade Kim Il Sung devoted his whole life to the Korean people's struggle for national self-determination and the international working-class struggle for socialist emancipation. With his leadership, the Korean people defeated the Japanese colonial occupation and soon after brought about the first defeat of the U.S. imperialist military machine.

For over 40 years since the armistice, the U.S. military has continued to occupy the south of Korea with troops and nuclear weapons. This occupation has been the chief obstacle to peaceful reunification of Korea and poses the chief danger of a new war on the peninsula." ...

"Workers World Party values our close, comradely relations with the Workers Party of Korea very highly. We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. ...

With comradely solidarity, Sam Marcy Chairperson, Workers World Party":
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam94/1994html/s940721.htm

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12 posted on 09/09/2008 7:42:21 AM PDT by ETL (Smoking-gun evidence on all the ObamaRat-Commie connections at my FR Profile/Home page)
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To: John Robie

Do you have any idea how f#$%ing busy I am hans Blix?????

13 posted on 09/09/2008 7:45:02 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (McCain/Palin 2008 : Palin the Paladin 2012)
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To: John Robie

this story was linked on the ny post website a little while ago. i tried to post it but my work computer is oh so slow. hope it’s true.


14 posted on 09/09/2008 7:45:21 AM PDT by thefactor (contributing nothing of value to threads since 2001...)
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To: John Robie

What caliber?


15 posted on 09/09/2008 7:47:00 AM PDT by RichInOC ("Lich, Lich, you bleaking my barrs....")
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To: cvq3842
I don't think it will happen in our lifetimes. If Korea is the Hermit Kingdom then North Korea is the home of Brainwashed Hermits.
16 posted on 09/09/2008 7:47:11 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: RichInOC; All

I think you may be right. The Chinese were supposedly considering a coup.


17 posted on 09/09/2008 7:49:21 AM PDT by John Robie
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To: Yo-Yo

Will I get in trouble from the mods if I say “Good. May he burn in Hell?”


18 posted on 09/09/2008 7:53:03 AM PDT by submarinerswife ("If I win I can't 't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." - George S. Patton)
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To: ETL
"World Wanker Party"

That how I read it on first quick scan through..

I guess my mind is in permanent T E A M _ A M E R I C A mode..,

...America f^(< Yeah!

19 posted on 09/09/2008 7:56:51 AM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: Puppage

Maybe it was the primary lookalike that had the stroke.


20 posted on 09/09/2008 8:09:12 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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