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2010-09-30 China-Japan-Koreas

What Will Happen to Kim Jong-un's Brothers?

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Posted by Fred 2010-09-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 Remember the fate of Nikolai Yezhov. Stalinist dictatorships make erasing a person possible and easy.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-09-30 00:21|| 2010-09-30 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Nah, Jong-nam is safe as a church mouse. He's a nobody. He's not important enough to assassinate. He's just another worthless Macao playboy gambler and drinker.

Posted by gromky 2010-09-30 00:57|| 2010-09-30 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Stalinist dictatorships make erasing a person possible and easy.

And fun. Don't forget fun.

Posted by Secret Master 2010-09-30 02:21|| 2010-09-30 02:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Guessing the fate of half-brothers and other potential usurpers is a game that's been played for several millennia in the East ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-09-30 07:59|| 2010-09-30 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 >>Nah, Jong-nam is safe as a church mouse. He's a nobody. He's not important enough to assassinate. He's just another worthless Macao playboy gambler and drinker.<<

I disagree. He's already expressed a dangerous strain of independent thought. He is spare for the Chinese. If the new boy doesn't work out to Beijing's liking, they have another, more pliable, Kim to install. This makes Jong-nam's life important, even if it's a long-shot.

His lifestyle makes a tidy death easier to arrange. Overdose you say? Sudden, massive heart attack in bed with a prostitute? Drunk and fell to his death off a balcony? Liver failure? Well, what do you expect...

Posted by Pstanley 2010-09-30 11:40|| 2010-09-30 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6 North Korea media publishes photo of Kim Jong-Un, first time photo of Kim Jong-Il son seen in years

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/09/30/2010-09-30_north_korea_media_published_photo_of_kim_jongun_first_time_photo_of_kim_jongil_s.html

Posted by Shath Pelosi4009 2010-09-30 15:39|| 2010-09-30 15:39|| Front Page Top

#7 And all this time I thought Yezhov was murdered because Stalin was allergic to midgets...

Posted by borgboy 2010-09-30 16:15|| 2010-09-30 16:15|| Front Page Top

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