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North Korea’s Kim Jong-un misses key celebration, but sources say coup rumors are false
Fox News ^ | 10/10/14 | Fox News

Posted on 10/10/2014 10:23:47 AM PDT by BlatherNaut

The mysterious disappearance of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un from public view for the last 35 days fueled wide speculation that he was ill or the victim of a possible coup, but a senior U.S. intelligence official calls the rumors false, and a Reuters source insists he’s “in total control.”

After weeks of unexplained absences, chatter on Kim’s whereabouts reached a fever pitch after he was conspicuously not on a list of dignitaries at an anniversary celebration of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party Friday.

An official state media dispatch listed senior government, military and party officials who paid their respects at the event marking the party's 69th anniversary, but not Kim. It said a flower basket with Kim's name on it was placed before statues of his father and grandfather, both of whom also ruled North Korea.

In the past two years, Kim marked the anniversary with a visit to the Pyongyang mausoleum where his father and grandfather’s bodies are interred.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coup; kimjongun; northkorea

1 posted on 10/10/2014 10:23:47 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: BlatherNaut

Can’t parade the Dear Eater cultic fat Buddha marxist god around the compound with a limp now.


2 posted on 10/10/2014 10:30:08 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: BlatherNaut
***but sources say coup rumors are false.***

Well there you have it!</sarc>

3 posted on 10/10/2014 10:31:10 AM PDT by Gamecock (USA, Ret.)
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To: BlatherNaut
Maybe Kim's golfing with Obama this weekend. :)

Read that Kim has gout and possibly other illnesses related to his weight and he's only 31. Maybe he's not long for this world.

4 posted on 10/10/2014 10:31:15 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: BlatherNaut; TigerLikesRooster; Jet Jaguar; AmericanInTokyo; All

There been rumor he wasn’t overthrown YET he is puppet leader NOW

He may have Henry VIII disease aka GOUT


5 posted on 10/10/2014 10:31:28 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: BlatherNaut

A 35 day bender?


6 posted on 10/10/2014 10:37:21 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: BlatherNaut
no one ruv me and I feering very sickry
7 posted on 10/10/2014 11:02:28 AM PDT by JPG ("So sue me". OK, we will.)
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To: BlatherNaut

History reveals an unfavorable end-of-life pattern for brutal dictators.


8 posted on 10/10/2014 11:08:20 AM PDT by lurk
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To: BlatherNaut
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9 posted on 10/10/2014 11:08:46 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: lurk

I hope they have already dispatched this creep. Who is the next creep in line to take over?


10 posted on 10/10/2014 11:09:49 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: SevenofNine

I get gout, but it responds pretty quickly to colcrys—like maybe a few days, instead of a few weeks. He might well have gout, but a 35-day attack? Henry VIII also suffered from open, oozing leg ulcers.


11 posted on 10/10/2014 11:19:48 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: BlatherNaut
a senior U.S. intelligence official calls the rumors false,

That seals it. There's been a coup.


12 posted on 10/10/2014 11:30:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
a senior U.S. intelligence official calls the rumors false, That seals it. There's been a coup.

:)

13 posted on 10/10/2014 11:36:24 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: All

‘NK trip to South no surprise to Washington’

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/10/120_165864.html

“The weekend visit to the South by a group of three top North Korean officials might not have come as a surprise to the United States because officials from Seoul have suggested to Washington that they are trying to make progress with Pyongyang, an expert said Monday.

The three officials — Hwang Pyong-so, Choe Ryong-hae and Kim Yang-gon — made a one-day surprise trip to the South’s western city of Incheon on Saturday to attend the closing ceremony of the Asian Games, where North Korean athletes competed.

It was unprecedented for such high-level North Korean officials to travel together to the South...”


14 posted on 10/10/2014 11:40:37 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: BlatherNaut
Did anyone look in the Royal dog's stool to see if he has been et?
15 posted on 10/10/2014 11:44:17 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: BlatherNaut

Remember the famous Monty Python “Parrot Sketch”? Maybe the lines in that sketch can be used to describe Kim Jong-un? Or he must be suffering from what Kremlin watchers used to describe as the “Kremlin flu.”


16 posted on 10/10/2014 12:18:56 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: hanamizu

Personally I think Chia Chub may have type two diabetes they aaying because of his weight that possiblty Diabetes complication


17 posted on 10/10/2014 12:35:45 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: JPG

OHH Chia Chub feel roaey poor BABY NOT


18 posted on 10/10/2014 12:36:20 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: RayChuang88

OH Ray if he kick it I hope they play great classical music that was cool thing about Russia leaders back in da day

Cool Classical music

I think Chia Chub is Nutcracker fan LOL!!!


19 posted on 10/10/2014 12:37:01 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: SevenofNine
"Personally I think Chia Chub may have type two diabetes they aaying because of his weight that possibility Diabetes complication"

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I also read that he has ankle problems or some such.

Sometimes diabetics have to have feet/foot amputations from infections.

I don't know how it works, and it doesn't happen to every diabetic, but I've heard of complications leading from feet/foot amputations and parts of leg/legs amputations.

20 posted on 10/10/2014 12:46:23 PM PDT by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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