Posted on 04/24/2020 7:30:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dead or alive? Probably the latter, but no one knows for certain what, if anything, happened to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un that made him vanish from the public eye since April 12.
Kim is said to be recovering from a failed angioplasty operation to insert a stent into a blocked coronary artery. The obese Kim weighs more than 300 lbs, stands 172 cm tall and relentlessly smokes up to four packs of cigarettes a day, sources reveal.
Daily NK, a website run by North Korean defectors in Seoul, claims Kim has had to deal with cardiovascular disease since August 2019. Western media outlets earlier this week reported United States intelligence agencies revealing Kim is "in grave danger" following the angioplasty surgery conducted at his family's Hyangsan Clinic in North Pyongan province. Still other U.S. intel has Kim walking at a beach in the port city of Wonsan in eastern North Korea.
Whatever his true physical condition, Kim's death or impending death is raising fears it will destabilize this heavily militarized region and trigger a massive refugee exodus out of North Korea and into South Korea and China. Kim's fate will also force the U.S., South Korea and other regional allies to react to the upheaval to contain the Korean People's Army (KPA) with its 1.3 million active military personnel, the Military Times noted.
The gravest threat to stability in North Korea is the lack of a designated successor to Kim. All Kim's three children are still minors. This fact means the strongest contender for the title of Supreme Leader is Kim's younger sister, Kim Yo-jong, who is only 32 years old.
Without a designated successor to Kim, there will be “chaos, human suffering, instability,” believes retired South Korean Lt. Gen. Chun In-Bum,
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Latest news just half an hour ago from UPI:
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Kim Jong Un may have left Pyongyang and could be sheltering in an undisclosed location on North Korea’s eastern coast, according to multiple press reports.
The North Korean leader’s absence triggered wild speculation regarding the state of his health this week, following unconfirmed reports Kim was in critical condition after receiving heart surgery.
Kim may have been evacuated to the coastal city of Wonsan, Kangwon Province, where he may have been providing field guidance at a resort construction site, South Korean news service Newsis reported Friday, citing Seoul’s national intelligence sources.
According to Newsis, movement has been observed among “dedicated vehicles” for Kim that suggest he may have been evacuated from Pyongyang. A special train for Kim’s use was stationed in Wonsan, but Kim’s private plane remained in Pyongyang, the report says.
“Chaos and human suffering”? — has North Korea ever experienced this before?
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trump said yesterday that CNN relied on old reports about him
Seeing a lot of discussion that some of his close people got wuhan flu.
Good chance he is trying to recover from it.
If all is well it seems like he would have made an appearance.
Make up your mind which units you want to use, author.
She looks like an alien....
Lots of speculation about Kim’s whereabouts......movement of his train could just be a diversion. Time will tell eventually.
How exactly could it be worse?
Everyone who is not in the employ of the government is basically starving.
They have no human rights.
The poorest of Americans make more in a couple weeks than the average NK person makes in a year.
Most NK’s have no electricity.
How exactly could it get worse. Plague?
The NK government makes the Iranian look good.
Has North Korea ever known anything else?
Does anyone ever recover from being ‘brain dead?’
Have they fed his hapless Surgeon to the dogs, yet?
*SHUDDER*
Maybe, but I saw no convincing case that chaos will result when he dies. It’s possible but just as likely the next iron fisted dictator will take over.
“The obese Kim weighs more than 300 lbs, stands 172 cm tall and relentlessly smokes up to four packs of cigarettes a day”
Is “packs” Imperial or Metric? It would be the tie-breaker. Meanwhile, I can’t believe Kim is in poor health with those stats. Shocking.
I was watching a YouTube analysis of this and they shot this theory down. North Korea is Patriarchy to the Nth degree. It is a purely male driven society. Women in positions of apparent power are more or less puppets for show.
It’ll be a Military jockey for power and who comes out on top is who has the best ties with China. China already has significant influence and bribed interest of the NK Military. You’ll see Chinese troops stacked on the border stopping the attempt of exodus, but few troops will be inside the border. The influence and money is already there in force.
Which differs from current day-to-day life how exactly?
Sum Ting Wong
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