Posted on 07/15/2009 11:38:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Former South Korean President and Nobel laureate Kim Dae-jung has been placed on a life support system at a Seoul hospital, Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday.
Officials at Seoul's Severance Hospital said the life support system was installed around 3 a.m. as he had difficulty in breathing. ``But the former president's condition got better and his illness is not life-threatening,'' a hospital official was quoted as saying.
Kim has been hospitalized after exhibiting symptoms for pneumonia since Monday.
Why couldn’t it have been the Nork Kim?
why can’t Kim Jong Il just croak already?
1) This is the first time I’ve ever heard where a person was put on life support but his illness was judged non-life threatening. Isn’t that practically a contradiction?
2) If I was close to death, I’m not sure I’d want to be at a place named “Severance Hospital”.
3) Yeah, I was hoping it was a certain other Kim also.
When they said that he was on “life support”, what they mean is that he is on a respirator.
Why?
Don’t you just love it when a “President for Life” ceases to be a president?
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