[StAnDeliver]

Let's think about this from what little we know:

• Heart surgery - ok, a stent job or worse? Closed or open?
• Main surgical group returned to PyongYang - ok, so mission accomplished, or "mission accomplished" and recalled by Madame Yong?
• Phat remains in recovery at 'the villa' - this indicates probably not just a stent job; and we know from past failed Communist states that retreating to the dacha instead of your palace is always a very bad sign

[shotgun]

A very good friend of mine went in for heart valve surgery when he was 73. The valve was damaged from polio he had as a child.

About 2 weeks later he called me and said he was doing great, could breathe better, had better stamina, and felt like a new man. He died the next day. His wife told that after he called me he told his wife he was tired and was going to take a nap. The next day she tried to get him to go to the doctor but he said he was fine, just tired.

My point is even in the best of care, heart surgery, or any surgery really is very serious and the outcome is not guarenteed.

[Gay State Conservative]

Cardiac procedures are more then a bit risky even when done by the finest physicians/surgeons in the finest hospitals.I can guarantee that you'll find neither in North Korea.

Or China.