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| Kimmie Makes 1st Appearance in Days |
| 2011-03-02 |
| North Korean leader Kim Jong-il reappeared in public on Sunday after vanishing from view since Feb. 17. Until then he had undertaken 27 of his so-called on-the-spot guidance trips this year, one every 1.92 days on average. Kim was seen again at a concert by an orchestra of the People's Internal Security Forces, escorted by his son and heir Jong-un. The forces are a new guard founded to protect the Kims, experts believe. "The Kims visited the guard first because they will protect them in an emergency," a North Korean source said. The regime apparently reconfigured the People's Security Guard, the equivalent to South Korea's riot police, into the new guard in April last year, and Kim senior visited them twice in September and November. Kim disappeared from public view for 50 days when the Iraq War started in 2003 and for about 40 days after the North launched a long-range rocket in July 2006. Last year, he made a total of 161 on-the-spot guidance tours, once per 2.26 days, as if to quell rumors that he is gravely ill. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Kim was seen again at a concert by an orchestra of the People's Internal Security Forces, escorted by his son and heir Jong-un. The forces are a new guard founded to protect the Kims, experts believe. "Problems" with the old security forces maybe? What are they gonna do, hit them with their violins... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-03-02 10:26 |