N.Korean leader has chronic kidney failure: expert

[cory777]

Source: AFP

SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is suffering from kidney failure which requires dialysis and also has partial paralysis following a 2008 stroke, the head of a state research institute said Wednesday.

Nam Sung-Wook, director of the Institute for National Security Strategy, said the paleness of Kim's fingernails indicates the 68-year-old leader has chronic kidney disease.

The institute has links to South Korea's National Intelligence Service. Nam's remarks, in a speech at a Seoul forum, were quoted by Yonhap news agency and were confirmed by the organisers of the event.

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[Drunken Irishman]

1. I cry...

Not.

[webDude]

2. Wouldn't you love to be a match for his tissue type?

[pampango]

8. You don't think there will be a shortage of "volunteers" to donate a kidney for "Dear Leader"?

;)

[DeSwiss]

3. As that great modern-day philosopher James Brown use to say.....

"...gravity gets us all in the end."

[LeftyMom]

4. Diagnosing people from photographs isn't exactly reliable.

I think they're probably right in this case, but it's a bad habit to get into.

[Wilms]

5. That's why I think Bill Frist watched videos. nt

[David__77]

6. I don't trust such reports.

I don't see him lasting to nearly the age of his father, however. There is grooming of his son to succeed him, who I think is maybe 30. Kim Jong il was groomed for 30 years before his father died.

[MADem]

12. Well, he's either 69 or 70, depending on who you believe, and Pops lasted till 82.

With enough "volunteer" body parts, and skilled Chinese surgery, he might make it to Pa's age.

[Codeine]

7. Couldn't happen to a nicer man.

Creepy little fuck.

[proteus_lives]

9. Creepy is right.

Another reason to pity North Koreans now. Little Kim will be going kidney hunting.

[Suji to Seoul]

10. Enjoy Hell. Yoda. . .I mean "Dear Leader" Assface!

Immature, I know, but Kim Jong-Yoda earned his place in Hell for what he did to his people.

[Jkid]

11. Hell awaits him

[AsahinaKimi]

13. I guess its from holding in all that

"Piss and Vinegar" he's had all these years. A lot of people will be happy to see him go. Maybe his son will be more reasonable to deal with. Even China, their comrade, has problems with him from time to time.

[old mark]

14. Who is up next after the "Dear Leader"? What a horror that place is....nt

[Posteritatis]

16. He designated an heir last year, but I forget who it was. (nt)

[maxsolomon]

17. youngest son i think

the older son is "dissolute".

[Gwoppi]

15. First OBL, now Kim

Sure is a lot of dialysis going on in our "Axis of Evil", ain't it?