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Report says N Korea's Kim convalescing by the sea (away from Pyongyang for 40+ days)
AP ^ | 07/05/09

Posted on 07/05/2009 3:42:17 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Report says NKorea's Kim convalescing by the sea

Sun Jul 5, 2:46 am ET

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has been living at an east coast villa since mid-May and is likely convalescing after reportedly suffering a stroke last year, a newspaper said Sunday citing U.S. and South Korean intelligence.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: absence; health; kimjongil; nkorea
I suppose his condition got worse and Pyongyang regime is in autopilot now. Wonsan makes a nice summer retreat.
1 posted on 07/05/2009 3:42:18 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 07/05/2009 3:42:46 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Praying for a “directed” tsunami. heh


3 posted on 07/05/2009 4:14:07 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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Praying for a “directed” tsunami. heh

I'd settle for a wayward NK missile. But hey, that's just me. :)

4 posted on 07/05/2009 4:30:59 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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That would be funny, “Dear Leader has left the building”, in a cloud of smoke.


5 posted on 07/05/2009 4:34:07 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer
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So...

Is he more easy to blow up there?

6 posted on 07/05/2009 5:31:27 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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I think so. It opens another possibility. You can drown him.
7 posted on 07/05/2009 5:41:20 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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“North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has been living at an east coast villa since mid-May and is likely convalescing after reportedly suffering a stroke last year”

WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S-EAST.

Whether Mr. Il is just ill or dead is of little consequence.
He is no longer in power.

His heirs are in the midst of a power struggle, and it is likely the missile launches are the results of that.


8 posted on 07/05/2009 7:29:28 AM PDT by UCANSEE2
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Recently, envoys from China and U.S. are busy shuttling around in E. Asia. Things could be a lot more fluid under the surface.
9 posted on 07/05/2009 7:33:57 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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HMMMM make me think who running NK LOL! his number three son or bunch of general LOL!


10 posted on 07/05/2009 9:22:06 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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