Posted on 09/11/2008 7:19:20 PM PDT by rdl6989
The hermetically sealed regime of North Korea dismissed yesterday the swirling doubts over the health of the Dear Leader as a “worthless conspiracy plot” concocted by the West.
In an attempt to scotch speculation that Kim Jong Il had suffered a stroke, as suggested by several intelligence sources yesterday, Kim Yong Nam, North Korea's second-in-command, told reporters that there were “no problems” with his master's health.
Without referring to the health issue, the Korean Central News Agency — the propaganda mouthpiece of Pyongyang — even offered proof that the dictator was well, pointing to a birthday telegram he sent to President Assad of Syria on Wednesday.
In a closed emergency parliamentary session in the South Korean capital, however, representatives of the country's main intelligence agency asserted that Mr Kim had suffered a stroke, but would recover.
Focus has now shifted to what, if any, plans are in place to establish a successor to the Dear Leader if he is incapacitated. Mr Kim's power rests in his total control of a personality cult centred on him and his father and he has not yet mooted the idea of that cult being enlarged.
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Pyongyang Ping.
They’ll probably be saying the same thing 50 years from now.
He should never have eaten that fried dog.
Let’s hope jongie is vegetative.
Weekend at Bernie’s, Part XXVIX.
” even offered proof that the dictator was well, pointing to a birthday telegram he sent to President Assad of Syria on Wednesday”
The sad thing about a state with no freedom of the press and where people get nothing but propaganda is that they actually think something like that is proof. It means nothing. I could have sent that telegraph for all anyone knows. But I guess they are so used to having everything they say swallowed hook line and sinker that they think that something that transparent will work on us too
Wasn’t he MIA about 4 years ago during the train wreck? Who knows how long he’s been “under the weather”.
Well, that settles it. There's no way for someone to pose as the dictator and send a telegram. How silly of me to think a photograph that was somehow dated might be useful to put the rumors to rest.
Probrem is he’s so Ronrey.
I saw Kim out on the Golf course, shooting another round of hole in ones. The guy makes Tiger look like a kid.
Do people still use telegraphy to communicate?
I can't imagine someone at a telegraph key sending
dots and dashes in the age of email.
here we go again with this wackie nation:
Kim Jong:
“ I don’t have nuclear weapons”
“ I am making a nuclear weapon”
“ Who said I am making a nuclear weapon?”
“ I don’t have a secret Nuclear research program”
“ I have had a secret nuclear research program for 10 years”
“ I have never tried to make nuclear weapons”
“ I am going to detonate a nuclear test weapon, but remember, I don’t have any nuclear weapons, except for the 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 that I don’t really have, because i have them but i don’t have them”
Oh, the Kim Jong II spin
I wondered the same thing. I know North Korea is decades behind the rest of the world, but wow, telegraphs!
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