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N. Korea's No. 2 leader visits Europe in March: sources(secretly to France/Italy/Switzerland)
Yonhap News ^ | 04/12/09

Posted on 04/11/2009 10:26:00 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

N. Korea's No. 2 leader visits Europe in March: sources

SEOUL, April 12 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's No. 2 leader made a secret trip to three European countries in March, but the purpose of his visit was not yet known, sources familiar with North Korean affairs said Sunday.

Jang Song-taek, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's brother-in-law, made visits to France, Italy and Switzerland from early to mid-March, the sources said, without elaborating on the purpose.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foreignvisit; jangsungtaek; nkorea
The original Korean article on this topic gave further details. It said that Jang was indeed absent from accompanying Chia Head for his field trip while this foreign visits were supposed to be taking place, lending further credibility to this story.

Visit to France is probably about consulting with the French doctor who treated Kim. They speculate that visit to Italy is about the yacht Kim was trying to buy. Even now, Kim wants to buy a new yacht to replace the old one where he and Jimmy Carter were cruising around in Pyongyang's Daedong River. The payment to the new yacht was confiscated by international authorities. It is quite likely that he went there in an attempt to fix the problem.

1 posted on 04/11/2009 10:26:01 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 04/11/2009 10:26:39 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (from "Irrational Exuberance" to "Mark to Zero": from '96 to '09)
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"Kim wants to buy a new yacht to replace the old one where he and Jimmy Carter were cruising around in Pyongyang's Daedong River."

He wouldn't be thinking about docking it here would he?

yitbos

3 posted on 04/11/2009 10:49:41 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

For people who claim to have every good thing within their borders, they sure do like their foreign excursions.


4 posted on 04/11/2009 11:38:03 PM PDT by tanuki (The only color of a leader that should matter is the color of his spine.)
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Visiting all the well stocked Swiss bank accounts of the delightful ruling socialists of North Korea.

At home, the perpetually starving people resort to cannibalism of corpses, while the leftist rulers dine on imported caviar and cognac. A country that is the democrat party’s vision of utopia.


5 posted on 04/12/2009 4:57:03 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Chains you can believe in)
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OH OH I feel sorry for anybody who is number two screw Chia Pet plans LOL!

POOR NUMBER TWO


6 posted on 04/12/2009 8:33:50 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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