[paraclete]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-...-dies/12187266

Kim has been in the news lately as being ill, and even having a heart operation, so what does this mean for the balance of power in the east?

[talaniman]

It means nothing! He either will be back with the SOS, or gets replaced by someone with the SOS.

[jlisenbe]

Isn't his sister kind of considered to be next in line?

[talaniman]

I don't know but didn't he assasinate his brother?

[paraclete]

what goes around comes around

[Wondergirl]

I don't know but didn't he assasinate his brother?

From Wikipedia:
"The assassination of Kim Jong-nam occurred on 13 February 2017 when he was attacked with VX nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia. Kim Jong-nam was the eldest son of deceased North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and the half-brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the time."

Later in the article:
"It is widely believed that Kim Jong-nam was murdered on the orders of Kim Jong-un."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assa...f_Kim_Jong-nam

[jlisenbe]

So the lesson to be learned is this. If your name starts with "Kim Jong", then you better watch your back.

[Wondergirl]

From
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...rs/3032122001/

On Monday, South Korea's unification minister, Kim Yeon-chul, told a closed-door forum in Seoul the government has “enough intelligence to confidently say that there are no unusual developments” in rival North Korea to corroborate speculation about Kim’s health.
"Kim Jong Un is alive and well," Chung-in Moon, foreign policy adviser to South Korean President Moon Jae-in, told Fox News on Sunday. "He has been staying in the Wonsan area since April 13. No suspicious movements have so far been detected."

[talaniman]

Maybe he caught the bug like Boris Johnson did in the UK.

[jlisenbe]

Could be, but what more "shelter in place" culture can you imagine that what they have in NK? That has to be a nightmare to live in. I understand that hunger has been widespread for years.

[talaniman]

I describe NK as more a closed society dictatorship. We can't know how this bug has affected this country, as it has the world, or what they have done about it, or if it worked or not. We do know or can assume, they can enforce whatever measures they make on the population though, but probably have very little control over who gets sick and who dies.

Agree with the nightmare of living conditions there.

[paraclete]

Now how can that be look how high on the hog Kim lives, he even looks like one, you mean there is no trickle down economics in play in a communist society

[talaniman]

Sure there is but if they allegedly starve the army then not much hope for the citizens I would imagine.

[paraclete]

The citizens lost hope long ago and maybe they are just a legend

[talaniman]

Hard to break that generational iron fist of the NK government.

[paraclete]

Yes there is an illusion in play, perhaps it is something in the water

[talaniman]

He has big boy toys regardless of whatever else he doesn't have.

[talaniman]

He's back!!

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