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North Korea leader Kim Jong-un's 'closest comrade' dies in car crash
The Guardian ^ | December 29, 2015

Posted on 12/29/2015 5:38:53 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

North Korea leader Kim Jong-un's 'closest comrade' dies in car crash

Kim Yang-gon, who handled the reclusive country’s ties with South Korea, died on Tuesday, state news agency reports

Reuters in Seoul

Tuesday 29 December 2015 23.28 GMT

A senior North Korean ruling party official and a top aide to leader Kim Jong-un has died in a car crash, the state news agency reported on Wednesday, in the latest event to hit the close circle of deputies of the country’s leader.

Kim Yang-gon, who was a secretary of the Workers’ party and the head of its United Front Department, the unit that handles the North’s ties with South Korea, was Kim Jong-un’s “closest comrade, a solid revolutionary partner”, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

Kim, as the top official managing ties with the South, was part of a high-level delegation that held talks in August after the rival states exchanged artillery fire, raising tensions to one of its highest points in recent years.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kimyanggon; nkorea; northkorea
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1 posted on 12/29/2015 5:38:53 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...

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2 posted on 12/29/2015 5:39:32 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Yeah. It was a one car accident. The weird thing is the car was still in the garage. And the guy was trying to drive it from the trunk.


3 posted on 12/29/2015 5:41:23 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Did it crash after being set on fire and rolled over a cliff or did crash after being thrown through the air by a giant catapult?


4 posted on 12/29/2015 5:41:25 PM PST by Crucial (At the heart all leftistshttps://terri0729.fil is the fear that the truth is bigger than themselves.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
That North Korean traffic is morder.


5 posted on 12/29/2015 5:42:44 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

A car crash? What did the car collide with...a T-24 tank?


6 posted on 12/29/2015 5:42:47 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

car collided with anti-aircraft gun.


7 posted on 12/29/2015 5:49:01 PM PST by batterycommander (...Change your diaper, diaperhead. It's full of shiite.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

People around him tend to wind up dead in all sorts of “accidents”.


8 posted on 12/29/2015 5:50:50 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Only two cars for miles and they crash.


9 posted on 12/29/2015 5:51:25 PM PST by ully2
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Wide lanes! Soooo luxurious!


10 posted on 12/29/2015 5:53:55 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: ully2

Kinda funny looking at downtown Pyongyang on Google earth. There are a few cars but nothing like you would expect in any modern city.


11 posted on 12/29/2015 5:58:19 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Is sad...accident do happen.

12 posted on 12/29/2015 5:58:31 PM PST by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: SaveFerris
Probably double-parked, too. That's what dictators do.


13 posted on 12/29/2015 5:58:57 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: TigerLikesRooster
'Where is Kim Yang?'

'Kim Yang-gon.'

14 posted on 12/29/2015 5:59:32 PM PST by Ken H
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To: Texas Eagle

Well done, sir.


15 posted on 12/29/2015 6:00:43 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: cripplecreek

The thing about Pyongyang is that it is literally a Potemkin Village, you have to have permission from the government to even live there. The rest of the cities in North Korea are nothing like Pyongyang.


16 posted on 12/29/2015 6:00:51 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Blood of Tyrants
People around him tend to wind up dead in all sorts of "accidents".

Clinton Comrades sometimes have the same problem

17 posted on 12/29/2015 6:06:47 PM PST by digger48
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To: TigerLikesRooster

That’s what happens when you ride in an old Soviet LADA.

Lada this, Lada that, crash.

One less carbon footprint from the psycho-ward known as North Korea.


18 posted on 12/29/2015 6:09:29 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“Ronery, I’m so ronery...”


19 posted on 12/29/2015 6:09:46 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Texas Eagle

TO #3. A talented driver this man be!


20 posted on 12/29/2015 6:10:19 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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