Posted on 07/11/2009 3:28:42 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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N. Korea's Kim Jong-il, Irascible and Hallucinating(S. Korean Think Tank Head)
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Kim Sung-jin = Due to complications from the stroke suffered August last year, N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il reportedly 'tends to be irascible and have trouble accepting negative reports,' according to Nam Sung-wook, the director of the Institute for National Security Strategy.
He said, "During the first half of this year, Kim Jong-il's health is believe to be stable in general but he shows some idiosyncratic symptoms which are believed to be complications from his stroke." The comments are from excerpts of his lecture, under the theme of 'Recent Situations in Inter-Korean Relations and the Direction of Education for Unification, which is sponsored by Peace Institute(director: Hyun Kyung-dae) and held on July 13 at Pusan's Institute for Educational Research Information
He also added, without naming the source, "Foreign medical doctors in countries like France cautiously advance the possibility that he suffers from hallucinations, too."
He pointed out as (corroborating) evidences that N. Korea went ahead with (the second) nuclear test even though S. Korea was in mourning over former President Roh Moo-hyun's death, angering S. Korean public, that it denounced China and Russia in unusually blunt terms, that he resorts to blunt brute-force approach in recent decision-making process, that he lets hardliners from military and security control the political agendas.
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Kim Jong Il's Failing Health Unlikely to Make Him More Volatile, Experts Say
Will Kim Jong Il go out quietly, or with a (big) bang?
The North Korean dictator made just his second public appearance on Wednesday since he reportedly suffered a stroke last August, looking gaunt and with dramatically less hair than he had in April, when the 67-year-old Dear Leader presided over a parliamentary meeting in Pyongyang that saw him re-elected.
Speculation on Kim's health has skyrocketed since his latest appearance to honor his late father and the country's founder, Kim Il Sung. A source close to Kim's extended family has said that the leader is in the last months of his life.
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"Kim Jong Il would feel he'd let down his father's legacy if he went out with a real bang and launched a nuclear attack," said Charles Ferguson, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "There's too much at risk for his legacy and regime. If he does that, we know his number. We would retaliate."
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Charles Ferguson, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
LOL. Another CFR imbecile strikes again.
Ping!
CFR= For the people who ought know a lot about foreign policy, geez those people are naive dumbasses and dont know a lot about foreign policy. I think there viewpoints are usually very NYC and DC-centrific, and skewered by expreme projectionism and ignorance.
The same kind of people who positioned us for no-win wars in Korea and Vietnam in the first place. Hey, but no sweat. Which nephew or brother of THIERS would go in the military and be out on the front line in one of their foolish global escapades. That nasty and bloody business for the little people, in flyover country, in Nebraska and Mississipi and Indiana.
This also has parallels to Hitler's last days as well.
If ANYTHING, he is liable to stare at the corpse of Daddy under glass at Mansudae, and vow to himself, "If Dad can launch an attack on those bastard American Imperialists, well then, I am just as good as Dad and I will do it for the Homeland if I have to myself."
What does this guy have to loose? He obviously is an atheist and believes in no afterlife and Judgement, and he also has already ordered the deaths of hundres of thousands of people. Whats a few more hundreds of thousands or millions to him??
Sobering thought indeed.
Amen to that chingu.
Sounds like Obama...
LOL
I wonder what his military leaders are making of this situation. Notwithstanding their fiscal or ideological connection to Chia Head, I would guess they are somewhat more sane, and realize what would happen if the old boy wanted to start a Korean Götterdämmerung. Would they go against him?
The big hinge on that is how in control of his faculties he is.
I suspect he's mostly bedridden at this point, and coughing up guidance and orders like some ancient oracle. Were I an ambitious general or minister, I'd be testing the limits of what I could get away with.
Kimmy ran a very paranoid ship; calling people at all hours, arranging elaborate loyalty tests, unannounced inspections, etc. That kind of game keeps your subordinates on their toes, but once you start backing off on such things, they can feel your grip slipping.
If Jong Il spends the next several months or longer alive but adrift, the tight bindings of the country may loosen, as the elites start to expand their spheres of influence (and smuggling operations, and illicit fund raising activities...)
Wolves such as these can only be ruled by a strong alpha.
With KJU now in control—if true as reported—of the North Korean Secret Police (and we know what police powers THEY have), it might be difficult for any of them to oppose him. After the old man kicks the bucket, if he has not nuked Honolulu, there could be some unsettling situations. The factions are all held together by mutual hate and mistrust, common to all Communist dictatorships. It just needs the right “shove” at the right “time”. Problem is, Obama has absolutely ZERO understand of North Korea, and a very weak advisory team on this country, so the result is he will do NOTHING and not only will miss a gold opportunity for regime change, may even jeopardize the United States greatly during this period and aftermath. My two yen worth.....
Pretty good take there.
NOw that funny it so true
I have feeling Chia Pet never had right mind LOL!
PCA occlusion
* The most common finding is occipital lobe infarction leading to contralateral hemianopia with macular sparing.
* Clinical symptoms associated with occlusion of the PCA vary depending on the location of the occlusion and may include the thalamic syndrome, thalamic perforate syndrome, Weber syndrome, cortical blindness, color blindness, failure to see to-and-fro movements, verbal dyslexia, and hallucinations.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/323409-overview
But, he might as well be hallucinating due to his medication, perhaps he is on morphine derivatives. If he still is in charge it might be very dangerous as he might force his entourage into extremely stupid decisions.
He should go out shortly after the big bang with a high-speed medium caliber bullet passing through his skull.
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