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Kim Jong-un is 'alive and well', says South Korea's security adviser
The Guardian ^ | 26 Apr 2020 | Justin McCurry and agencies

Posted on 04/26/2020 7:36:51 PM PDT by McGruff

South Korea has said that Kim Jong-un, is “alive and well”, downplaying rumours that that the North Korean leader was seriously ill after undergoing heart surgery.

“Our government position is firm,” Moon Chung-in, a special adviser on national security to the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, said in an interview with CNN on Sunday. “Kim Jong-un is alive and well.”

The adviser said that Kim had been staying in Wonsan – a resort town on the country’s east coast – since 13 April, adding: “No suspicious movements have so far been detected.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; 202004; 20200413; kimjongun; northkorea; southkorea; wonsan
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Let's hope so. His sister scares the crap out of me.
1 posted on 04/26/2020 7:36:51 PM PDT by McGruff
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This is not the first time Kim’s absence from public life has sparked rumours about his health. He dropped out of sight in late 2014 but reappeared more than five weeks later using a walking stick. Days later, South Korea’s spy agency said he had undergone surgery to remove a cyst from his ankle.


2 posted on 04/26/2020 7:38:58 PM PDT by McGruff (Freedom is contagious.)
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There’s a lot of info to the contrary.

It may be that China bought out the sister and had Lil’ Kim taken care of.


3 posted on 04/26/2020 7:39:22 PM PDT by struggle
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To: McGruff

He’s been neutered, regardless of his actual status. Assuming he is alive,I can only think that he was removed in response to Trump’s overtures.


4 posted on 04/26/2020 7:39:32 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: McGruff

The Norks will say that he has risen.


5 posted on 04/26/2020 7:40:15 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: McGruff

This Kim has executed people by anti-aircraft gun and mortar, not sure she can be worse.


6 posted on 04/26/2020 7:40:26 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: McGruff

Matters to me only because President Trump suggested the claims of ill health or death was CNN fake news.


7 posted on 04/26/2020 7:40:29 PM PDT by coaster123 (XLV-MMXX)
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>This Kim has executed people by anti-aircraft gun and mortar, not sure she can be worse.

She’s a real question mark. She’s only in her mid-30’s and her husband is a relative higher-up. I think if she makes waves, she’s going to end up dead and the military oligarchy will have to decide on a successor of their own.

I don’t know if China has decided on her, because she’s a lot easier to control, but if Kim dies it’s going to send the country into chaos.


8 posted on 04/26/2020 7:43:22 PM PDT by struggle
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To: McGruff

Sis is always a millisecond from the far strand.


9 posted on 04/26/2020 7:43:32 PM PDT by coaster123 (XLV-MMXX)
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not sure she can be worse.

I don't want to find out.

10 posted on 04/26/2020 7:44:23 PM PDT by McGruff (Freedom is contagious.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

That’s probably not a half bad way to go,given a choice.


11 posted on 04/26/2020 7:45:51 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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Kim is vacationing by a lake and...oh look!... a squirrel!

12 posted on 04/26/2020 7:47:21 PM PDT by Nateman ( Unless the left is screaming you are doing it wrong.)
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To: McGruff

It’s true!

He was having steaks and beers over the weekend with Bernie


13 posted on 04/26/2020 7:47:38 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: McGruff

It’s said she has the same qualities as her brother.


14 posted on 04/26/2020 7:48:04 PM PDT by caww
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Flame throwers & Ill tempered Sea Bass with frick’n lasers on their heads.


15 posted on 04/26/2020 7:49:38 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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“Matters to me only because President Trump suggested the claims of ill health or death was CNN fake news.”

I caught that too but differently. Trump loves to call CNN fake news but he didn’t in this case. He said he thought the information was incorrect.

He has a way of speaking in with this kind of nuance on purpose, as a message. Perhaps Kim isn’t dead, but he did have a close call. Or, he’s alive but incapable of performing at his position.


16 posted on 04/26/2020 7:52:37 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods ("As government expands, liberty contracts." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: crosdaddy

I’d take the anti-aircraft missile.


17 posted on 04/26/2020 7:54:21 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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That’s probably not a half bad way to go,given a choice.

I agree. The first nanosecond had to be very painful - but it would have been a very quick (albeit messy) way to go.
Much less painful than when his father fed Hans Brix to his aquarium full of piranhas (or maybe it was sharks)...

18 posted on 04/26/2020 7:55:33 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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“This Kim has executed people by anti-aircraft gun and mortar, not sure she can be worse.”

It can ALWAYS be worse.


19 posted on 04/26/2020 8:00:00 PM PDT by plain talk
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Get the older brother...at least he listens to Clapton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-chul


20 posted on 04/26/2020 8:00:30 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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