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North Koreans worry over 'emaciated' Kim Jong Un, state media says
Reuters ^ | 6-27-21 | reuters

Posted on 06/28/2021 7:00:35 PM PDT by dynachrome

Everyone in North Korea is heartbroken over leader Kim Jong Un's apparent weight loss, said an unidentified resident of Pyongyang quoted on the country's tightly controlled state media, after watching recent video footage of Kim.

The rare public comment on Kim's health come after foreign analysts noted in early June that the autocratic leader, who is believed to be 37, appeared to have lost a noticeable amount of weight.

"Seeing respected general secretary (Kim Jong Un) looking emaciated breaks our people's heart so much," the man said in an interview aired by state broadcaster KRT on Friday.

"Everyone is saying that their tears welled up," he said.

In the clip, which Reuters could not independently verify, Pyongyang residents were seen watching a big screen on the street showing a concert attended by Kim and party officials after a plenary meeting of their Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: health; ketodiet; kimjongun; kinjong; littlerocketman; nkorea; northkorea; weight
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To: dynachrome

21 posted on 06/28/2021 7:37:30 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: TTFX

Okay. Not risky. Sorry. I have very little knowledge of it.

I still watch for all the things Hillary does and I do the opposite and usually come out better off.


22 posted on 06/28/2021 7:38:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Lurker
Communist countries have always had great weight-loss programs


23 posted on 06/28/2021 7:39:27 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople ("The issue is never the issue. The issue always is the Revolution." Lenin)
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To: Libloather

Hot light was on when I drove by earlier tonight!!

I behaved and didn’t stop.

But only because the line of cars was wrapped around the building.


24 posted on 06/28/2021 7:42:07 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.)
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To: NobleFree

Re: Nutrition Pyramid....

Isn’t modern science wonderful? All the junk food groups there, just choose from them.

Is it still true scientifically that eating a lot on a plane won’t cause weight gain because the altitude makes calories unable to stay with you?


25 posted on 06/28/2021 7:42:08 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: ocrp1982
If, when he expires his sister will assume leadeship. From everything I’ve read she is a serious, hardcore commie bitch. It is said, she makes her brother and her father look like _ussies in comparison.

I’ve read the same. That she has a mean streak that makes Kim Jong Un look benevolent.

26 posted on 06/28/2021 7:42:29 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: dynachrome

Hell, North Korea doesn’t even have to publish anything; America will pump out the propaganda for them.


27 posted on 06/28/2021 7:43:29 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: dynachrome
Everyone in North Korea is heartbroken over leader Kim Jong Un's apparent weight loss.

Oh please. Not everyone. Many, deep in their hearts, are hoping he, and all the other commie bastards, will DIE painful, slow deaths.

28 posted on 06/28/2021 7:43:44 PM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force combat pilot )
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To: dynachrome

A new Peloton marketing campaign?


29 posted on 06/28/2021 7:44:22 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: kvanbrunt2

Maybe he went ‘keto’.

After all, he can afford all the meat protein he wants - while his people starve.


30 posted on 06/28/2021 7:45:33 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ocrp1982

She wont last two weeks.


31 posted on 06/28/2021 7:52:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dynachrome

He’s still fat.


32 posted on 06/28/2021 8:09:30 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Remember, all the world’s a barstool.)
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To: dynachrome

Maybe he got the AIDS?


33 posted on 06/28/2021 8:09:33 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: dynachrome

They better not get to concerned. They can be shot for being negative.


34 posted on 06/28/2021 8:11:36 PM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: dynachrome

“Everyone is heartbroken about Kim”....If they know what’s good for them, they better pretend to be ‘heartbroken’.
Kim has been known to torture and order killed certain people who were inefficiently sorrowful on anniversary dates of his father’s death.
North Korea is heavy into performance grieving.


35 posted on 06/28/2021 8:14:07 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: dynachrome

If this ‘weight loss’ is even really happening, my guess is
loving sister Kim Yo Jong may know something about it.
I can just see her ordering special Home Brew Tea, the kind with a wee tincture of arsenic or ricin.
If slowly doing away with an enemy is the goal, some have even used over the counter Eye Drops. drop or two in the morning coffee. The Russians know all about that sort of thing.


36 posted on 06/28/2021 8:19:40 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: frank ballenger

“So is that Kim’s problem or is it now cancer or something?”

Yeah, you know I have no idea if he has a problem. The media used to worry about him being so heavy, now his citizens worry about him being less heavy. The photo I saw was low quality. I think to his citizens his size was the leader image, well fed, hale and hearty, as opposed to most of them, who are emaciated. He is the symbol of the ideal, and they have a hard time when they lose their leaders. But they get through it.


37 posted on 06/28/2021 8:25:15 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: dynachrome

I saw no change whatsoever in the “before” and “after” pictures. What’s this all about? He’s still a fattie.


38 posted on 06/28/2021 8:32:09 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: dynachrome

North Koreans need not worry. Dear leader Kim Jong Un finally found his anus and recently used it to pass 4000 kg of feces.


39 posted on 06/28/2021 8:58:13 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: lee martell

40 posted on 06/28/2021 9:04:04 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can't use legal means because Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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