Posted on 10/03/2014 12:18:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The North Korean capital has been placed under lockdown, according to sources with Pyongyang, raising new questions about the stability of Kim Jong-un's regime.
Quoting sources within North Korea, the respected New Focus International news web site has reported that a ban on new travel passes to leave or enter Pyongyang was introduced on September 27.
And while the North Korean authorities have in the past limited access to the capital, the latest restrictions even apply to permanent residents of Pyongyang, who are by definition the elite of the regime.
"This sort of action suggests there has either been an attempted coup or that the authorities there have uncovered some sort of plot against the leadership," Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Tokyo's Waseda University and an authority on North Korean affairs, told The Telegraph.
"If it is a military-backed coup, then the situation in Pyongyang will be very dangerous and I have heard reports that Kim has been moved out of the capital," he said.
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They should request help from the American Secret Service...
Are there mooselim jihadists..in North Korea?
Totur rockdown.
He maybe we could send Obama over there and straighten everything out. He’s shown himself to be able to straighten things out real good!
Bwahahahahahaha....
When you spend your life sodomizing the people, don’t be surprised when they return the favor to your dead body (a la Gaddafi).
Live like a dictator, die like a dictator.
Chia Head frightened by lawnmower.
But, but....he’ll be soooo ronery.
Maybe the fat little bastard died and they are trying to control the grab for power.
No, they are just doing what is needed to keep Ebola at bay in the country. Smart countries, even communist dictatorships, know about Obo... er, I mean... Ebola.
Just had a horrific thought...what if Ebola broke out in N. Korea? Could there possibly be a better example of hell on earth? And most here would have a good idea of how the “treatment regimen” would proceed....Can anyone spell SKS?
How does North Korea under lockdown look any differnet than just plain, North Korea?
while we send another 1000 troops to “fight” ebola in Africa...
Another possibility is that he is not one of those individuals who can embrace his hedonistic lifestyle without getting severe and acute effects. He might be having any number of serious problems such as diabetes, gout (allegedly), atherosclerosis and other vascular, cardiac and pulmonary disease, and you name it.
Recent pictures of him look like he has suddenly become obese, but if that is from edema, his liver might be shot.
Perhaps, but unlike us little people, he has no shortage of “voluntary” organ donors.
I think he flew into a fit of rage after he found out the separation of Jessica from SNSD.
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