N. Korea: Kim Jong Il Turns 68 Amid Health Questions (rhino's horn, bear gall bladder)

Fox News ^ | 02/16/10

[TigerLikesRooster]

Kim Jong Il Turns 68 Amid Health Questions

Tuesday , February 16, 2010

SEOUL, South Korea — North Koreans celebrated "peerlessly brilliant" leader Kim Jong Il's 68th birthday Tuesday as questions persist abroad about his health and the future of the impoverished, nuclear-armed nation.

Depressed and chronically ill, Kim relies on rare, costly and sometimes outlawed remedies such as rhino's horn and the bile of bear gall bladder, one South Korean official told The Associated Press. Another intelligence expert said North Koreans have gone twice to Beijing since 2008 to buy prized remedies, spending more than $610,000 on one shopping trip.

Both spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of matters involving the authoritarian North Korean leader.

Though noticeably gaunt, Kim appears active and even cheerful in photos distributed by state media. Dressed in a heavy parka, he has been shown in recent weeks guiding construction of a hotel, visiting a mine and even watching a dance performance.

However, Kim is undergoing kidney dialysis and suffers from depression, said Cheong Seong-chang, a senior analyst at the private Sejong Institute think tank outside Seoul, citing a "very credible" source. He declined to identify his source.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Depressed and chronically ill, Kim relies on rare, costly and sometimes outlawed remedies such as rhino's horn and the bile of bear gall bladder

The guy's antics are truly biblical. The man can make a perfect villain for action/thriller movies. The guy is devious, sinister, brutal, bizarre, and outlandish. He has everything.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[NCC-1701]

“...Though noticeably gaunt, Kim appears active and even cheerful in photos distributed by state media....”

With enough drugs, even Josef Stalin would look rather bright eyed and alert.

But that pose wouldn’t last very long

[AmericanInTokyo]

If the RINO horn is so rare, they ought to source it in Arizona and South Carolina. I am sure they could find a donor there rather easily.

[TexasRepublic]

“If the RINO horn is so rare, they ought to source it in Arizona and South Carolina. I am sure they could find a donor there rather easily.”

I’m sure Texans could recommend some other equally effective homeopathic remedies, such as boot up the ass.

[Emile]

So the little Gargoyle is suffering from depression? I wonder what in that Socialist workers’ paradise could possibly cause that? How can one be depressed in Utopia, especially when we’re talking about the one in charge?

[SevenofNine]

I watching something on Yahoo news video that they say after stroke Chia Pet became depressed because of infighting among his familiy too

OH MAN LOL! turn into soap opera over there

[SevenofNine]

Hey Tiger did you hear about this sister of Chia pet wield more power

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100217/wl_asia_afp/nkoreapoliticskimfamily_20100217130209

[reagan_fanatic]

I wonder how many starving peasants that $610,000 would have fed?

[csmusaret]

He is depressed because his pee pee doesn’t work anymore. Rhino horn and bear gall bladders are old time remedies for impotence and lack of virility. Lil Kim should try some DHEA and/or ZMA.

[dfwgator]

The man can make a perfect villain for action/thriller movies.

"I resemble that remark."

[Emile]

Why would he need potence or virility? What self-respecting person would want to fool with the Dear Gargoyle, except maybe at gunpoint?

Maybe if he stopped starving and slaughtering his people, his male parts might feel more in the mood.