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| Kissinger admitted to South Korean hospital |
| 2010-03-14 |
| (CNN) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday with a stomach virus, a doctor told CNN. "He is getting hydration and holding his food down," Dr. John Linton of Yonsei Severance Hospital said. "All his signs are normal. We hope to send him on his way tomorrow, but he is an elderly gentleman, so we are watching him like a hawk." The state-run Yonhap news agency reported that Kissinger, 86, arrived in the South Korean capital Wednesday for a security forum and met with President Lee Myung-bak on Friday. A special medical team did a check-up and MRI scan and took X-rays, but found nothing serious, staff sources at the hospital said. Kissinger will likely remain at the hospital overnight and will probably be released Sunday, they said. Kissinger, who now chairs a consulting firm, served in the 1970s under Presidents Nixon and Ford. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 with Le Duc Tho for negotiating a treaty to end the Vietnam War. Kissinger had triple coronary bypass surgery in 1982 and an angioplasty in New York five years ago. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 did someone send Kissinger to Pyongyang? I wonder if that will replace "Send him to Detroit!" as a catch phrase. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-03-14 19:23 |
| #3 Hee hee. When Kissinger made the first (secret) trip to Beijing, he reported having a 'stomach virus' and that he was recuperating in a Pakistani villa loaned to him by Yahya Khan. He was actually on a plane enroute. So... did someone send Kissinger to Pyongyang? |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2010-03-14 07:32 |
| #2 so we are watching him like a hawk." I suspect we should have been doing that some 40 years ago. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-03-14 04:17 |
| #1 "He is getting hydration and holding his food down," Dr. John Linton of Yonsei Severance Hospital Dog meat soup and kimchee |
| Posted by: penguin 2010-03-14 00:07 |