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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 69, has died
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| 12/18/11
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Posted on 12/18/2011 7:27:15 PM PST by Nachum
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69.
Kim's death was announced Monday by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country carefully documented by state media.
The leader, reputed to have had a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine, was believed to have had diabetes and heart disease.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deadkim; dingdongkimisdead; jong; kim; kimisnolongeril; kimjong; kimjongeun; kimjongil; korean; north; northkorea
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:27:22 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Rest in hell, you little bastard!
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:29:33 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Nachum
Helen Thomas deeply saddened.
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:30:18 PM PST
by
ez
(When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
To: Nachum
I'll drink to that!
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:31:14 PM PST
by
digger48
To: Nachum
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:33:25 PM PST
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
To: Nachum
It’s gonna hit the fan now! I pray I’m wrong.
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:33:25 PM PST
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
To: Nachum
Ding dong
The witch is dead
The wicked witch...
To: SaraJohnson
Only to be replaced by another Kim clone...
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:34:35 PM PST
by
JosephMama
(Who to choose, who to choose...)
To: SERKIT
Great! Now I have that song “so ronery” stuck in me head
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:34:45 PM PST
by
yank in the UK
(decapitation before capitulation)
To: Nachum
Whaddya think guys? What are your early predictions?
China does NOT want a unified Korea right on her border?
Will they move in & take-over? Predictions?
It’s early, yes. Take a shot.
I say China eventually tries to take-over —before China’s economic lurching she’d already PLANNED for it, and now that they’re spoiling for a distraction, I’d say that goes DOUBLY so, now.
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:35:35 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: Nachum
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:36:26 PM PST
by
edcoil
(It is not over until I win.)
To: Nachum
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:36:35 PM PST
by
Track9
To: SERKIT
He’ll be ronerey in hell.
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:36:52 PM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
To: Nachum
This ought to be interesting.
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:37:53 PM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: Nachum
To: gaijin
VP Joe Biden is being pinged for funeral duty.
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:38:23 PM PST
by
AU72
To: Nachum
Only about 15 years of misrule compared to his dad’s 40+. Time to see what the next nut in the family tree is like, I guess.
To: Nachum
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:39:20 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: ez
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:39:24 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: Nachum
Christopher Hitchens to "The Jong-er" as he's about to meet his maker:
"I got a sound bollocking but you, my friend, are f****d."
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posted on
12/18/2011 7:40:26 PM PST
by
paddles
("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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