Posted on 01/05/2014 6:35:41 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Is Kim Jong-un's Aunt Dead?
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's aunt and widow of executed eminence grise Jang Song-taek is believed to have died, possibly by her own hand.
A government source here on Sunday said Kim Kyong-hui, who has been out of the public eye either committed suicide or died from a heart attack.
The source said intelligence services here believe Kim is dead but have not been able to confirm this, though they are also trying to find out whether she went abroad for medical treatment.
Another government official said, "There are many rumors going around about Kim Kyong-hui, but we're not yet able to confirm any of them."
Kim Kyong-hui is former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's only sister and the daughter of nation founder Kim Il-sung.
She was last seen at the 65th anniversary of North Korea on Sept. 9 of last year and with Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju at a musical performance on Sept. 10. Despite the execution of her powerful husband, her name was on a list of dignitaries planning the funeral for a high-ranking Workers Party official who died in mid-December, so intelligence services here believed she was alive and well.
But she did not show up for the second anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il on Dec. 17, raising speculation that she was ill or forced into isolation.
Born in 1946, she is 68 this year and apparently suffered from alcoholism and depression due to her troubled marriage with Jang and the suicide of her daughter in 2006.
She went to Moscow in 2011 for medical treatment. A government official said, "It is clear that Kim Kyong-hui received medical treatment on her toe and there are rumors that she was also treated for heart problems or dementia." Other rumors said she received medical treatment in Singapore in 2012. englishnews@chosun.com / Jan. 06, 2014 09:30 KST
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dogs were hungry?
So again, what’s the problem with big government?
Shot herself in the head. Twice.
Death by 120 cats?
Dude, are you keep track of the dead trios?
They rounded up hundreds of Jang family and sent them to the camps, they are rounding up thousands of his associates and likely their extended families too. They will be starved, forced to work and raped and beaten in the camps. Yes, these extended families include children too, they do not distinguish.
It is such horror, it is difficult to believe. Even the Soviets or the WWII Germans (with notable exceptions, to be sure) were not as barbaric.
Yep. That is true. NK is this barbaric against their own people. The WW2 Germans did not consider most of the ones they slaughtered in the camps to be “their people”, gypsies and jews and such.
Who living in North Korea WOULDN’T be suffering from alcoholism and depression?
Actually dude, we need to recalculate our recent trios, not an easy task when you consider the volume of all the recent departures. Un’s uncle, whom we included as a string player in one of our trios, was actually fed to the dogs along with five other players, his associates (thus proving our general theory - uncle + 5 = 6 = 2 trios!), but since that removes him from one of our classical trios, a recalculation is required, and auntie may actually end up in the trio with Phil Everly, not a bad company, for certain.
What you’re talking about has happened in the Communist countries (but never in the Soviet Union to our knowledge!) a handful of times since 1945, you can count them on the hands of one and a half hands. The Communists have got the tools and mechanisms of power all figured out, just look at Cuba and Venezuela and Zimbabwe, why do you think it is such a popular method of power?! (NOTE: According to an hour long video presentation on Youtube by an American living in South Korea and studying NK, NK is not really a communist state, but it has adopted some of the methods of communism.)
Was auntie anti?
Portrait of a dysfunctional family.
Where’s the wife?
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