French Doctor Headed for N. Korea to Treat Kim Jong-il (again: specialist on brain tumor)

Segye Ilbo ^ | 10/29/08 | Chung Seung-wook

[TigerLikesRooster]

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French Doctor Headed for N. Korea to Treat Kim Jong-il

Japanese media "specialist on brain tumor left for Pyongyang"

Internet edition of Mainichi Shimbun, Japanese Daily, reported on Oct. 29 that a brain surgeon at St. Anne Hospital in Paris, France, left for N. Korea a few days ago in order to treat brain sickness of N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

The specialist is Francois Xavier Lou (sp?) (age:57.) He is a specialist on arterial flow and brain tumor, and he also treated Kim in Pyongyang last August, according to the paper. (When asked,) His colleagues at St. Anne Hospital replied, "We can't tell you where he went." French Foreign Ministry also commented, "Even if the press report is true, it is purely a private visit and has nothing to do with French government."

A diplomatic source in Beijing said, "Kim Jong-il's eldest son Jong-nam has been staying at a hotel in Beijing since last weekend, and we confirmed that the French specialist also arrived nearly at the same time."

Regarding this development, Dr. Lou, known as the head of Neurosurgery Department at St. Anne Hospital, sent a message to AFP on Oct. 28, saying, "I am in Beijing," and denying the report on his stay in N. Korea. However, he did not comment on the (possible) plan for Pyongyang visit. He is reported to be a close associate of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.

Tokyo, Chung Seung-wook

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[TigerLikesRooster]

The flow of intelligence:

The French brain surgeon --> French government --> U.S. government

[TigerLikesRooster]

Chia Head may die before the year's end.

[norraad]

Mr. Ill I S a tumor!

[COBOL2Java]

IIRC from photographs, this fellow is extremely well-fed, unlike the citizens of DPRK. Not a surprise...

[eleni121]

Advanced syphilis is a tough way to go.

And worse to come when he does.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

That’s so nice of him, saving the best health care providers (i.e., the North Korean ones) for the common people, while he utilizes the inferior resources of the West. Truly a great and egalitarian leader.

[TigerLikesRooster]

A tumor gets his own tumor. Is the world great or what?

[worst-case scenario]

Ask me if I am sad that Mr. “I’m-So-Rone-ry” has a brain tumor. What will North Korea do if he dies? Have a national nervous breakdown upon losing “Dear Leader”?

[hosepipe]

[ French Doctor Headed for N. Korea to Treat Kim Jong-il Japanese media "specialist on brain tumor left for Pyongyang" ]

Kim has a brain?... Who knew...

[TigerLikesRooster]

You know, his bad unruly hairs feed on his pesky brain. It is a blob of nutrients. Without it, he will be bald.:-)

[FastCoyote]

Reminds me of the old Mad TV skit “Head Detective”

[martin_fierro]

A tumor gets his own tumor. Is the world great or what?

[Schatze]

All Kim Jong Mentally Ill needs is plenty of thorazine.

[Artemis Webb]

I hope the sonofabitch suffers.

[Artemis Webb]

< |:)~ <——is that a sperm or the tin man with a goatee?

[LibWhacker]

Kim Jong-il

Hope he's in agony.

[rdl6989]

Slowly and painfully.

[ridesthemiles]

“A private visit”

SSUUUUURRRE it is-—
Everyone who has the education and the finances of a French Brain Surgeon would jump at the chance to “visit” North Korea.

Specially when there are NO other places to “visit”.

SSUUUUUURRRE.

[SevenofNine]

Good he is on my this year dead pool

[tanuki]

Didn’t Kim senior die of a brain tumor?