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2009-06-19 China-Japan-Koreas

Kim Jong-il's Health 'Getting Rapidly Worse'

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Posted by Steve White 2009-06-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 HMMMM, HMMMMM, wehell, could explain WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC NORTH KOREA SENDS ENVOY ON SUDDEN SECRET/COVERT VISIT TO BEIJING.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-06-19 00:14|| 2009-06-19 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 What are they going to do with an emergency helicopter? Fly Kimmie to the ER?

His 20is yr old son won't keep things going. NK is likely to crack up if he croaks now. Any general who takes power will lack the hereditary argument to rule and will not be uncontested.

Hope this is true.

Posted by JAB 2009-06-19 01:05|| 2009-06-19 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 So, any armchair diagnosticians want to give a prognosis on how long Kim's got, based on his earlier health and stroke last year?

Posted by gromky 2009-06-19 03:01|| 2009-06-19 03:01|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 So, any armchair diagnosticians want to give a prognosis on how long Kim's got, based on his earlier health and stroke last year?
Posted by: gromky 2009-06-19 03:01

About twenty years longer than he should have had, all things considered.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-06-19 04:04|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-06-19 04:04|| Front Page Top

#5 One week.

Those curses really DO work.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-06-19 06:54|| 2009-06-19 06:54|| Front Page Top

#6 The health of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is rapidly deteriorating,...

Faster, please.

It's a pity he won't meet his fate at the end of a rope, but you takes what you can gets.

Posted by Mike 2009-06-19 07:01|| 2009-06-19 07:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Kim Jong-il - Kim Old-Dead - You had your time, did nothing but crime. My wish for you RIH - Rest in H-LL - may you be visited by all you torched,starved,molested and may this be visited upon you until the end of time.

Posted by Shusotch Peacock2747 2009-06-19 07:36|| 2009-06-19 07:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Will Barry lower the flag to half-mast? Attend the funeral? Fly on to China for a Great Wall tour?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-06-19 07:51|| 2009-06-19 07:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Good riddance.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-06-19 07:53|| 2009-06-19 07:53|| Front Page Top

#10 "...a foreign ambassador in Pyongyang as saying that Kim Jong-il's fragile health made the situation in North Korea "very complicated>."

Then bring in Denice Richards as his lead doctor.

Posted by Lord garth 2009-06-19 08:20|| 2009-06-19 08:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Not Awec Bawdrin?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-06-19 11:38|| 2009-06-19 11:38|| Front Page Top

#12 I'd like to believe that the sanctions really are preventing them from importing the medical equipment that he needs. Might make some of the other piss ant dictators in this world think twice about their own anti-social behavior.

It's nice to see that buzzard hanging around ol' Kimmie.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-06-19 11:52|| 2009-06-19 11:52|| Front Page Top

#13 A good Friday Morning, indeed...

Posted by Clem Spick8834 2009-06-19 11:54|| 2009-06-19 11:54|| Front Page Top

#14 I'd like to believe that the sanctions really are preventing them from importing the medical equipment that he needs.

Not a chance. With the resources of a nation-state, anything can be bought and shipped in.

Posted by john frum 2009-06-19 12:55|| 2009-06-19 12:55|| Front Page Top

#15 If Kimmie really is going out, is it possible he plans to go out with a "Bang"? Slight anxiety over that upcoming Missle launch, and whether it could possibly be armed. After-all, if Kimmie's reign is coming to an end, why not throw an "all in"?

Posted by Charles 2009-06-19 14:06|| 2009-06-19 14:06|| Front Page Top

#16 The work with the pins and dolls is beginning to pay off.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-06-19 14:34|| 2009-06-19 14:34|| Front Page Top

#17 Stabilizing rapidly

Posted by mojo 2009-06-19 15:50|| 2009-06-19 15:50|| Front Page Top

#18 The buzzards rejoice. Great picture for this item, thanks Steve.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-06-19 16:33|| 2009-06-19 16:33|| Front Page Top

#19 From WaPo: insurance fraud is one way they get cash.

Posted by JAB 2009-06-19 17:11|| 2009-06-19 17:11|| Front Page Top

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