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North Korean TV Says Kim Jong-un Is 'Not Feeling Well'
2014-09-27
Follow-up.
[NY Times] Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
, the North Korean leader, is "not feeling well," a state-run television station reported this week, in a rare revelation about his health.
As Fred likes to say, pray for sepsis...
In a documentary broadcast on Thursday, the North's Central TV showed Mr. Kim, who has not been seen in public in recent weeks, walking with a limp while visiting a factory in Nampo, a provincial town southwest of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, last month. A narrator intoned about the tireless work of Mr. Kim, "our marshal, who lights the path of leadership for the people like a flame, although he was not feeling well."

Central TV, a key channel of government propaganda, mentioned Mr. Kim's physical trouble in the context of what it called his selfless dedication to his people. Still, it was so rare for the news media in North Korea to discuss the condition of the supreme leader that Thursday's report was widely picked up by the South Korean news media on Friday.
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Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-09-27 20:00  

#8  "Discomfort," which would appear to mean more than merely plugged up from all the cheese:

“gout, hyperlipidemia (elevated concentrations of lipids), obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure.”

It's not sepsis, but the irony that he's doing himself in with a Western diet is nice too.
Posted by: RandomJD   2014-09-27 19:42  

#7  I blame the OB and chips.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-09-27 14:56  

#6  Kim Jong-Un: 'Missing' Leader May Have Gout
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-09-27 14:48  

#5  What about gout?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2014-09-27 13:37  

#4  He has a "cold".
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2014-09-27 09:54  

#3  Hope it's extremely painful.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2014-09-27 09:17  

#2  Is he "Pinin' for the fjords"?
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-09-27 09:02  

#1  A factory? What do they make, grass and twig sandwiches?
Posted by: Steven   2014-09-27 02:31  

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