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Where Is Kim Jong-il's Eldest Son?
2010-10-05
Probably in Havana giving the donkey show guided tour...
[Chosun Ilbo] What is North Korean leader Vito Kim Jong-il's eldest son Fredo Jong-nam doing now that his younger brother Mike Jong-un has been confirmed as his father's successor? The unemployed Fredo Jong-nam has two wives and a mistress and three children living in Beijing and Macau.
I'm your older brother, Mike nam , and I was stepped over!
That's the way Pop wanted it.
It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm schmart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm schmart and I want respect!
At the Dragon Villa on the northern outskirts of Beijing apparently lives his first wife Shin Jong-hui (late 30s) and son Kum-sol (13). His second wife Lee Hye-kyong (late 30s), son Han-sol (15) and daughter Sol-hui (12) live in Macau, as does his girlfriend So Yong-la (AKA:So Long-ya bum) (early 30s), who used to be a flight attendant for Air Koryo.

Last Wednesday, it emerged that Fredo's Jong-nam's second wife and their two children live on the 12th floor of a modest, 20-year-old apartment in Macau, but nobody answered the doorbell. A junior high school girl living in the apartment said, "I used to meet the Kim siblings often, but I haven't seen them recently." When shown a photograph of Fredo Jong-nam, she said, "I saw him on the news, but I never saw him here."
I have, however, seen Moe Yong Green...
According to South Koreans in Macau, the couple are separated. Fredo Kim Jong-nam was rumored to enjoy late-night drinking sessions with his bodyguards and friends at another apartment in the old quarter of Macau, but a security guard in that building said, "I've never seen Fredo Kim Jong-nam. The only people who come here are foreign journalists looking for him."

An international school in the new section of Macau's Taipa Island features the flags of around 60 countries including the North and South Korean flags. "The only North Korean who can afford to send his children to expensive foreign schools in Macau is Fredo Kim Jong-nam, and the North Korean flag means his children are attending this school," said one South Korean resident. Until this spring, the two children apparently lived in a new condo complex called Nova City around 500 m away from the school. But after Japanese reporters came to the school and began tailing the children, the family moved to a new address.

Until three years ago, Fredo Jong-nam and his bodyguards went to the matresses lived in an apartment in the southern tip of Macau's Coloane Island. But the place now looks empty. Also, nobody recalled seeing Fredo Jong-nam at the housing area where his girlfriend So Yong-la is reportedly living. Workers at the casino, restaurant and lobby of the Altira Hotel, where Fredo Jong-nam was spotted by journalists in June this year, said they had not seen him recently.
...probably too busy banging cocktail waitresses two at a time.
A South Korean who runs a restaurant in Macau said, "After the Cheonan sinking [in March], I saw Fredo Kim Jong-nam at the coffee shop of a top-notch VIP-only hotel. When he heard us speaking in Korean, he immediately got up and left. In the past, he used to say hello, but not any more."

A South Korean intelligence official said Fredo Kim Jong-nam has apparently not been to Macau for months now and shuttles between China and another country. The official added Fredo Kim Jong-nam has a different mother from his two younger brothers, Mike Jong-un and Sonny Jong-chol, so his status in the family hierarchy is uncertain.

Kim Pyong-il (56), Vito Kim Jong-il's half-brother, has been in virtual exile in Poland, where he is nominally the North Korean ambassador, since 1998.
He'll be introduced in "Dear Leader IV"...
Posted by:Fred

#7  Lest we fergit, NET > As CHINA STRENGTHENS, + the US seemingly WEAKENS? IN GEOPOL POWER, GUAM + WESTPAC > may devol in LT into a [demarcative]NO-MANS-LAND = STAR TREK-STYLE KLINGON, ROMULAN "NEUTRAL ZONE" WHERE US MIL ASSETS MAY NOT CROSS UNLESS IT IS WILLING TO RISK ITS ACTION BE DEEMED AN "ACT OF WAR" AGZ CHINA???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-10-05 23:39  

#6  WMF > CHINA ACQUIRES THE "BACKFIRE" BOMBER FROM RUSSIA: CPLA TO DEV "CHINESE BACKFIRE" CRUISE MISSLE CARRIERS FOR LR DEFENSE OF THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" + TAIWAN AGZ THE US AIRCRAFT CARRIER, ATTACKS AGZ US LR HEAVY BOMBERS, DRONES, + SUBMARINES ON GUAM BASE.

ARTIC > IOW, CHINA + CPLA/CPLAAF gets TECH TRANSFERS as per BACKFIRE, BLACKJACK strategic bomber designs.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-10-05 23:31  

#5  ION CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > TOKYO, MOSCOW LOCK HORNS IN DISPUTED ISLANDS STANDOFF.

ARTIC > IIUC, Russia is proclaiming its Right to Sovereignty oer the FORMER JAPANESE KURILS/KURILES BY RIGHT OF MIL CONQUEST = JAPAN'S DEFEAT IN WAR; VERSUS THE "AMBIGUOUS" POST-WWII TREATY OF SAN FRANCISCO where JAPAN allegedly agreed to give its claims to its Kurils territories BUT RUSSIA'S SOVEREIGNTY OER THE JAPANESE KURILS WAS NOT FORMALLY RECOGNIZED???

* WMF > UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PROFESSOR ARTHUR WALDRON: POST-WWII US-JAPAN SECURITY TREATY AN EMPTY SHELL. JAPAN NEEDS TO DEV + INCREASE ITS NATIONAL SELF-DEFENSE CAPABILITIES DUE TO US RELIABILITY AS AN MILITARY ALLY. JAPAN AT PRESENT MAY SURVIVE FOR ROUGHLY ONE MONTH IN THE FACE OF A MAJOR CHINESE MILITARY, NUCLEAR ATTACK AGZ JAPAN.

ARTIC > IMO read, JAPAN NEEDS TO GO WEAPONS NUKULAAR.

* WMF > THE BATTLE OF THE DAOYUS AGZ JAPAN IS A DECISIVE BATTLE FOR THE RISE OF CHINA. OKINAWA + GUAM BASES ARE THE US' "MAGINOT LINE" OF ASIA-PACIFIC DEFENSE AGZ RUSSIA.

* WMF > STRONG JAPAN DOOMED BY CHINA'S STRATEGIC DOUBLE/TWIN-EDGED DIVERSIONARY SWORD IN THE DAOYUS + ITS NEW DISPUTE WID RUSSIA OVER THE KURILES, HISTORIC LOSS BY JAPAN OF ITS HALF OF SAKHALIN ISLAND, POST-WWII SOVIET, CHINESE RAPPROCHEMENT ON SOVEREIGNTY OVER SAKHALIN ISLAND.

* EX-CHIEF OF JAPAN DEFENCE AGENCY: US SHOULD CONVERT JAPAN INTO ITS "UNSINKABLE AIRCRAFT CARRIER", + HENCE CREATE ITS STRONGEST MIL BLOCK/BARRIER AGZ CHINA + CPLAN IN ASIA, US-JAPAN BILATERAL SECURITY COOPERATION TO INHIBIT CPLAN MOVES IN WESTPAC + DETER ANY CHIN AGGRESSION AGZ RUSSIA.

* WMF > HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DING XUALING: 2010-2015 CHINA + CPLAN WILL REMAIN TOO WEAK TO WAGE SUCCESSFUL CONVENTIONAL WAR AGZ JAPAN + JMSDF FORCES OER THE DAOYUS.

ARTIC > IMO read, CPLA's only mil option will be to resort to PREEMPTIVE CONVENTIONAL, NUCLEAR STRIKE = "FIRST STRIKE".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-10-05 23:23  

#4  For those of you that think there will be an uprising as soon as Dear Leader is T.U. Many predicted the same when the Great Leader passed. Dictators do not let people who dissent live very long. The people of North Korea are hungry, cold, and miserable but that has always been their existence.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge    2010-10-05 17:36  

#3  I consider it a great disappointment if the answer is anything other than "hanging by his neck from a lamp-post."
Posted by: Mike   2010-10-05 14:19  

#2  Hymen Roth Kimmy has been dying of the same heart attack for the last 20 years...
Posted by: Warthog   2010-10-05 12:08  

#1  Kim Jong-nam was rumored to enjoy late-night drinking sessions with his bodyguards and friends at another apartment in the old quarter of Macau, but a security guard in that building said, "I've never seen Fredo Kim Jong-nam. The only people who come here are foreign journalists looking for him."

I like the guard's concern for his principal as well as his smartassedness towards reporters.
Posted by: gromky   2010-10-05 08:31  

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