N. Korea: Kim Jong-eun's Photo Unveiled by State Media (just as fat)

Chosun Ilbo ^ | 09/30/10 | Kwon Seung-joon

[hulagirl]

CRIPES!!!! I feel like we’re in an Austin Powers movie!

[caww]

Might be the beginning of the end for Kims son if that happens. I have heard allot of inner circle conflict. I doubt any are happy with the state of affairs...course that has been going on for sometime now. How far China’s influence goes on this whole affair makes me wonder as well. They want Kims son right where he’s at...they’re after the port I understand and will still want N.Korea as thier buffer Zone. How long they can play that hand remains to be seen with all the changes internationally.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Not, that’s him, allright.

[caww]

Obama will not do a thing..ever for N.Koreans people. If help comes it will be from within, if that’s even possible. I’m afraid the people will have to see another starvation bout as before any actions can be expected. It is truly beyond sad the people will watch one another die of starvation before they will rise up together. That is the only way this will change and I doubt the people have the desire or will. %0 years of brainwashing pretty much has the fix in.

[caww]

Oh that’s too funny! LOLROTF

Unfortunately it’s serious business in a country with Nukes, otherwise this would not be happening as it is.

[AmericanInTokyo]

There was a good US opinion article about this, a long time ago, called something like "the boys in the camps". It wrote from the perspective that no matter how hermetically sealed the concentration camps in a larger, equally closed place like North Korea were, word nonetheless filters in whether the Leader of the Free World feels for them or not. It came in the form in one North Korean concentration camp where a political prisoner saw a discarded Rodong Shimun (Workers Daily) newspaper and hastily read the editorial scathing in its criticism of George W. Bush [as much as I had some problems with him] for "slandering the Republic." They did not not even have to write what Bush said, that was enough. The reader who risked his life to read the dispatch a) knew America's Leader recently said something forcefully about cruel North Korea enough to anger them, and b) this gave the inmate great courage to know somehow "the outside world knows." After escaping, he related this.

Bottom line: We can be assured that under Obama, those same inmates a) hear nothing critical of Obama by North Korea, and b) also chillingly put two and two together and can extrapolate that they are absoluely Friendless in the White House at present. I would even wager that North Korean Prison Camp guards probably taunt the poor imprisoned that America has gone soft and that there is indeed "no external help for you any more, so give up your hopes".

[SampleMan]

What do you call a fat North Korean? “Dear Leader” of course.

[Doogle]

Odumbo wishes he had the technique.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Apparently, S. Korea's Chosun Ilbo came up with the new photo, which is taken at a closer distance.

Reportedly, the photo on the right is Jong-eun at the party conference, while the one on the left is his teenage photo.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Blown-up a little further:

[Int]

More from TV stills (bottom right):

Source

Interestingly, in the first pictures released a day earlier it seems the young Kim was (purposely?) cut out of the picture. Which is a little odd...

[AdmSmith]

The mean time between failure for the dear leader is about 30 minutes (he falls asleep), with this appearance Kim Jong-eun has a MTBF of less that a year.

[AdmSmith]

less than a year

[TigerLikesRooster]

Controlled release? Giving it extra little suspense. Certainly, NK did not draw attention to Kim Jong-eun's picture af first. Then we have this tiny grainy picture on Rodong Shinmun. Now it seems that press went back to the previous footage to pinpoint the guy which fit the profile of the picture on their party newspaper.

There is a joke going around in SK that the regime fatten him up intentionally to look old. However, I doubt that. He can do it on his own. His genes are lopsidedly in favor of obesity.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Does not look good, does it?

[WellyP]

Looks like his head is going to explode!

[TSgt]

with this appearance Kim Jong-eun has a MTBF of less that a year.

LOL!

[TigerLikesRooster]

According to the latest news article from Yonhap News(posted on JoongAng Ilbo,) Kim Jong-eun suffered a diabetic shock in early Aug., 2008. It was an emotional shock for Kim Jong-il, and led to his stroke. This is from Lee Young-hwa head of RENK, N. Korea human right organization based in Japan.

Source(in Korean)

So your assessment is not far off, if this is true. Back then, there was indeed a story that Kim Jong-il's stroke was attributed to severe injury of Kim Jong-eun around that time. At the time, it was rumored to be some motorcycle accident.

[TigerLikesRooster]

By diabetic shock, I mean, it actually reached the level to cause Jong-eun to collapse, triggering potentially critical situation.

[nuconvert]

doesn’t look happy about the whole thing.

I read that he went to private boarding school in Switzerland(?) and speaks 4 languages(?). Do we know whether he went to university?