N.Korea's Kim has 'serious' pancreas disorder: report

AFP ^ | 07/10/09

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N.Korea's Kim has 'serious' pancreas disorder: report

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TOKYO (AFP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is suffering from a "serious disorder" of the pancreas, a Japanese television network reported Friday, quoting a South Korean intelligence official.

The 67-year-old's condition has been the focus of much speculation since he reportedly suffered a stroke last August.

The TBS network reported that Kim has been resting and is being treated at his villa in the southeasten area of Wonsan by a team specialists.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Complications are piling up. Time is running out. Please kick the bucket before the end of this year.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Perdogg]

What will happen before he does?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Jimmah Cahtah’s funeral calender is open...

[Sloth]

I wonder if it’s his Ires of Rangelhans.

[Steel Wolf]

He won't make it to year's end. Assuming he's still alive.

If he's too sick to be paraded around in public touring factories and what not, they've got to shuffle him off to some villa like this for 'recovery', where he'll probably stay until he dies. We won't know when that point happens, maybe for months. They can try and give Kim Jong Un a crash course in Dictatorship 101, but those are some big platform shoes to fill.

This is a very dangerous time, because until he's officially dead, Jong Un won't officially take over. That means the generals and the ministers will have some time to see what they can get away with in expanding their own fiefdoms. They know Kim may be dead already. At best, his ability to rule is decreasing daily. The longer they have, the harder it will be for Jong Un to consolodate power, and the more fractured the country will be.

North Korea is hard, but brittle.

[WellyP]

The newly appointed dictator, was educated in Swiss schools and knows what is happening in the west. It would be nice to think that could or would turn NoKo to the west and save his country. Trouble with that thought is, the people around him would most likely kill him to protect thier power if he were to try.

This will end badly, very badly!

[cripplecreek]

Gee, poor fella. I sure do hope he doesn’t have pancreatic cancer or something. [/sarc]

[SunkenCiv]

Let’s all chip in and send him a boxcar of Jolly Ranchers.

[xsmommy]

the illmatic be seriously illin’...

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Disease-o-the-month

Is there any ailment that he HASN’T been reported to have?

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

The way the sick SOB calls women in to gratify himself (while people of NKorea starve) he also probably has every std known.

[thethirddegree]

gigantism.

[Ole Okie]

I wonder if it’s his Ires of Rangelhans.

North Koreans can't pronounce "Babe Ruth" either?

Whatever, pancreas problems are problems indeed.

[reagan_fanatic]

Complications are piling up. Time is running out. Please kick the bucket before the end of this year.

I'd be happy if he'd kick the bucket before lunch.

[domeika]

Why doesn't he just go to Cuba for treatment? I hear they have great health-care.
If however he is too ill to make the trip, I suggest one 9mm to the forehead every four hours.

[Lurker]

Golly TLR I certainly hope it’s nothing agonizingly painful or anything!

[ScottinVA]

Somebody had better start training up the boy for those ever-so-valuable “on-the-spot guidance” tours.

[CottShop]

no wonder He’s cranky then- I’d probably fire missles too if I had Pancreatic disease

[AmericanInTokyo]

And just WHEN is a “pancreatic disorder” NOT serious??!!