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North Korea

Post by lpm » Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:57 am

Oh no, they're playing sad music in North Korea.

A despicable person, responsible for the deaths of thousands, vain and obese, utterly incompetent but propped up by fanatical cultists, and yet this man became one half of the unlikely friendship between the two leaders of the USA and North Korea, forming a deep and loving bond across the continents. His friend Kim Jong Un was pretty despicable as well.
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Re: North Korea

Post by lpm » Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:00 am

Who does anyone fancy as next leader? Sounds like they have a girl Kim ready and waiting. Interesting script development.
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Re: North Korea

Post by Herainestold » Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:16 am

He's not dead yet.

He's getting better.
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Re: North Korea

Post by Brightonian » Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:42 am

#ClapForKimJongUn

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Re: North Korea

Post by shpalman » Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:43 am

Get well soon mate.
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: North Korea

Post by tenchboy » Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:09 am

shpalman wrote:
Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:43 am
Get well soon mate.
Tops! Made me laugh did that.
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Re: North Korea

Post by bob sterman » Sun Apr 26, 2020 9:02 am

Looks like th UV light and disinfectant perked him up...

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Re: North Korea

Post by Martin Y » Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:16 am

Let's trim our hair in accordance with mourning.

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Post by Opti » Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:46 am

I would but , y'know, not so much on top.
Time for a big fat one.

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Re: North Korea

Post by sTeamTraen » Sun Apr 26, 2020 12:28 pm

He's been seen out in public!
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Re: North Korea

Post by lpm » Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:29 pm

Downing Street has announced Jong Un is "in excellent spirits".
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Re: North Korea

Post by Herainestold » Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:01 pm

This time, however, the rumors feel different. The talk that Kim Jong Un had some kind of heart surgery has had a stubborn persistence, making the real question his condition.

Some experts agree that this time it seems like more than the usual scuttlebutt.

“We are potentially facing a serious crisis,” said Andrei Lankov, a respected historian of North Korea, adding that he believes that something is “definitely wrong” with Kim.
When I asked Lim Jae-cheon, a Kim family expert at Korea University in Seoul, about Kim Yo Jong’s prospects a few years ago, he almost spat out his coffee. “She can’t be leader,” he said. “She’s a female.”

I can’t see how Kim Yo Jong could become the leader. But I also can’t see how she could not become the leader. There’s no one else.
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Re: North Korea

Post by shpalman » Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:49 pm

He's been moved to intensive care but it's just a precaution, there is nothing wrong with him, he's not in hospital at all.
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Post by Gfamily » Sun Apr 26, 2020 4:04 pm

Any suggestion he'll be recuperating in Chinese Chequers?
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Post by JQH » Sun Apr 26, 2020 4:10 pm

shpalman wrote:
Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:49 pm
He's been moved to intensive care but it's just a precaution, there is nothing wrong with him, he's not in hospital at all.
And anyone who says different has been shot.
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Re: North Korea

Post by headshot » Sun Apr 26, 2020 4:36 pm

Gfamily wrote:
Sun Apr 26, 2020 4:04 pm
Any suggestion he'll be recuperating in Chinese Chequers?
Wasn't that a Barenaked Ladies song?

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Re: North Korea

Post by Blackcountryboy » Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:55 pm

I realised last Thursday he had a problem when he only wrote two operas before breakfast.

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Re: North Korea

Post by Grumble » Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:32 pm

Surely if he was dead even NK wouldn’t keep that secret? I’m sure they would if he was merely incapacitated though.
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Re: North Korea

Post by AMS » Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:39 pm

That might depend on state of the power struggle to succeed him.

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Re: North Korea

Post by Herainestold » Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:59 pm

Grumble wrote:
Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:32 pm
Surely if he was dead even NK wouldn’t keep that secret? I’m sure they would if he was merely incapacitated though.
From what I have read, when previous Kims died, NK let the world know quickly.
There have been other times when previous Kims were rumoured to be deceased, and it turned out they weren't.
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Re: North Korea

Post by jimbob » Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:35 pm

Blackcountryboy wrote:
Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:55 pm
I realised last Thursday he had a problem when he only wrote two operas before breakfast.
Nice
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation

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Re: North Korea

Post by Woodchopper » Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:47 pm

Perhaps it was the surgeon https://youtu.be/2wcI10CNuxU

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Re: North Korea

Post by Herainestold » Mon Apr 27, 2020 5:42 am

Not dead yet
This third source believes Kim is definitely not dead and notes there have been no unusual movements of North Korea’s military or security, and no visible ceremony preparations or signs of jockeying for power. This fits with what the South Korean government has been saying all week. As well as some U.S. sources.
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Re: North Korea

Post by Stephanie » Mon Apr 27, 2020 3:43 pm

shpalman wrote:
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Get well soon mate.
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Re: North Korea

Post by Herainestold » Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:36 pm

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is either dead, brain-dead or just fine, depending on which Asian media report you believe.
A Hong Kong broadcast network claimed Saturday that Kim died, citing a “very solid source.” A Japanese magazine, meanwhile, reported late Friday that he is in “a vegetative state.” On Kim’s home turf, the North Korean media has acted as if everything is perfectly normal.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/25/north-kor ... o-be-dead/
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