-Eric
Posted on 02/21/2005 5:04:52 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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It is alleged that, last November, during a shooting incident by a son of Jang Sung-taek, who is Kim Jong-il's brother-in-law, Kim knocked unconscious.
A source who used to be in N. Korean intelligence said on Feb. 14 that this story is making a round among high-level N. Korean security officials. According to this intelligence, between the night of Nov. 28 and the early morning of Nov. 29, there was a family gathering including Kim Jong-il, his second son Kim Jong-chol, Jang Sung-taek's son(Jang is Kim's brother-in-law), during which shots were fired, and fights erupted. In the midst of this chaos, Kim Jong-il also knocked unconscious.
The source said that Jang's son fired at Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-chol took him on physically. In the process, Kim Jong-il was either grazed (by a bullet) or shocked at the shooting, which led to his loss of consciousness, it is suspected. This story must have come from agents guarding him at the time.
Jang's son was sacked when his father, who was the First Vice Director of Organization Guidance Dept. of Worker's Party, was purged last spring. However, somehow he was attending the family gathering last November. He was a high ranking official at Party's Central Committee before his sacking. After that, he was said to be a high-level official at Party Committee of N. Hamgyong Province. However, some believes that he was actually a high ranking officer at the Bureau of Guards.
Kim Jong-il's sister, Kim Kyong-hee(Jang's wife), petitioned Kim Jong-il twice for leniency ( for her husband) after Jang was purged. However, both petitions were turned down. She has been in seclusion since. Until early last year, experts (on N. Korea) regarded Jang as the prime candidate to succeed Kim Jong-il after his death.
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Chairman Kim’s dissolving kingdom
Next, I came across an article which said that Kim Jang-hyun was adopted by Jang Sung-taek and Kim Kyong-hee.
Now we have the article above which seems to tie all loose ends. It would be difficult to get an independent verification of this incident. However, three different news source fit together to give us the rather specific picture of the incident.
Kim Kyong-hee is said to be either an alcoholic or addicted to drug. Because of that, he is said to really ill or even have taken her own life. Either way, she is in real bad shape. Considering what happened to her family, we may understand why.
Ping!
WOW! Some interesting happenings.
-Eric
He so ronry.
Were they at Che Ju Do during spring break! LOL (totaly dysfunctional family)
I hate anyone who beats me.
Sounds like some party! Too bad his aim wasn't better.
But Kim Jon-Il is safe and will recover? Whew! The Left will breathe a sigh of relief! To say nothing of all those PEST-sufferers who are hoping to find refuge under his leadership.
Sum said an unidentified Chinese family member Hu-hee fell Il.
And to think they have nukes...
The scary thing to me-- my first thought is if something like this happens and is successful, they would no doubt blame the US and say it was an assassin, and lead the march to war. These people are nuts!
Too many Jongs ,Jings ,Yangs and Yings in this story ,I cant keep them all straight.
You will get used to it.:)
I thought the guy with the gun fell Il.
Sometimes you should be beaten.
Like Hitler in the Wolfs lair, he dodged the bullet.....to friggin bad eh?
I'm impressed. There are actually two other treads on FR with "fainting" as a keyword.
Too many Kim etc. I know what you mean. This is really interesting though. There have been some strange "accidents" involving dear leader in the last couple years, like the train wreck that caused a huge explosion devastating a villiage just after Kim passed through.
I think Jang Sung, but Hu hee was on first.
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