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N. Korea: Kim Jong-il's 'Mystery Doctor' Identified (Francois-Xavier Roux)
Chosun Ilbo ^
| 10/30/08
Posted on 10/30/2008 3:18:25 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-il's 'Mystery Doctor' Identified
Francois-Xavier Roux |
A French doctor believed to have been contacted by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s son before embarking on a trip to Pyongyang has denied the mission and says he is in Beijing. He was identified as Francois-Xavier Roux (57), head of neurosurgery at Paris' Sainte-Anne Hospital. French weekly Le Point identified Roux as the doctor who left Paris last week and visited North Korea in August. It said Roux is a top French expert on brain tumors, with a specialty in laser surgery.
As a member of Médecins Sans Frontières (doctors without borders), an international humanitarian organization, he has been engaged in volunteer activities in Cambodia, Vietnam, China and Afghanistan He is reportedly a close friend of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, another former member of MSF.
But on Tuesday, he told AFP he was in Beijing, not North Korea. He did not say whether he was planning to treat Kim in the future.
Japan’s Fuji TV on Monday aired footage of Kim Jong-nam, Kim's eldest son, leaving the hospital in Paris after meeting with Roux last week, saying the doctor left for Pyongyang two days later.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; francoisxavierroux; kimjongil; neurosurgeon
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...
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posted on
10/30/2008 3:18:55 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
"..the doctor who left Paris last week and visited North Korea in August." Wow. He must have a time machine or something.
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posted on
10/30/2008 3:33:17 AM PDT
by
Jaxter
(Everything I needed to know about Obama I learned by Googling "Black Liberation Theology".)
To: Jaxter
Bad writing.:-)
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posted on
10/30/2008 3:37:15 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Didn’t she play Aunt Bea on the Andy Griffith Show?
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posted on
10/30/2008 3:44:39 AM PDT
by
Peter W. Kessler
(Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Roux is a top French expert on brain tumors, with a specialty in laser surgery. Who will be using North Korea's most advanced equipment to perform surgery on Kim Jong Il - flashlights and sharpened spoons.
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posted on
10/30/2008 3:51:44 AM PDT
by
Hardastarboard
(0bama's past associations need a good "Ayering out".)
To: Hardastarboard
It won't pose any problem since the doctor would open Chia's head and scoop out a slice of brain and eat it like pudding.
N. Korea's political problem can be solved in such a simple and crude way.:-)
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posted on
10/30/2008 3:56:25 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Of course the surgeon is French. France is always there to prop up enemies of the United States be it the PLO, Saddam, Sudan, Iran, North Korea, Russia, etc.
There is a reason that the Soviets put a statue of Charles De Gualle in Red Square.
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posted on
10/30/2008 4:55:26 AM PDT
by
WaterBoard
(Somewhere a Village is Missing it's Socialist.)
To: TigerLikesRooster; Jet Jaguar; monkapotamus; AmericanInTokyo; All
So that doctor who treated Chia Pet I just hope he left a will for his family just in case that guy is doomed
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posted on
10/30/2008 8:02:09 AM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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