N. KOREA DICTATOR KIM JONG-UN REPORTEDLY DEAD ... After Botched Heart Surgery

[Javaman]

https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/25/north-korea-dictator-kim-jong-un-dead-dies-heart-surgery-reports/


North Korea's Supreme Leader/dictator Kim Jong-un has reportedly died, or is on his death bed with no hope for recuperation -- according to media outlets in China and Japan.

Amid reports China has sent a medical team to their communist neighbors this week to check in/advise on Kim, a Hong Kong-backed news channel's vice director -- who's apparently the niece of a Chinese foreign minister -- blasted out the news herself ... he's dead.

The woman put the report on a social media app called Weibo for her nearly 15 million followers to read, citing a "very solid source" about the claim Kim had, in fact, perished. A Japanese magazine reports he's in a "vegetative state" after a heart surgery gone wrong.

The outlet reports -- citing a Chinese medical expert privy to the situation -- that Kim had clutched his chest in early April and fell down while visiting the countryside there. He needed a stent procedure done, but apparently ... it either wasn't done rapidly enough, or it was botched completely by the surgeon -- with some reports saying he had shaky hands.

Tmz take it for what it’s worth

[bigtree]

1. sounds like something out of a cheap novel

[Javaman]

3. That's why I take TMZs reporting with a grain of salt nt

[John Fante]

26. I wouldn't. They're sleazy as hell, but they break a ton of these big stories.

They broke the news of Kobe's death before anyone else.

[Hortensis]

21. Yes, as is his whole life story. If I knew more about NK-China,

I might be inspired to try my own hand at fiction by almost any detail. Imagination's the limit in that weird world.

One SK source said he had surgery on April 12. If he's dead he'll be mourned by millions of course, less all those he murdered of course.

[RainCaster]

2. I'm skeptical

I saw this an hour ago, and I tried to confirm on CNN who ran the original story, as well as the Korea Herald and a number of other reputable news sources.
Silence

[Javaman]

5. Exactly. TMZ is the trashiest of trash news. Nt

[sweetloukillbot]

24. True. But they're usually right regarding celebrity deaths nt

[Javaman]

25. And if Un was anything he was a cult of personality to NK. nt

[Hortensis]

23. Daily NK out of SK is quoted by Reuters carefully,

noting Daily's NK source is unidentified.

[Jamastiene]

4. The link is broken.

At least it was for me.

Here:
https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/25/north-korea-dictator-kim-jong-un-dead-dies-heart-surgery-reports/

[Javaman]

8. Link fixed

[TreasonousBastard]

6. We'll know for sure soon enough.

[Mike 03]

7. FWIW, i24 and the Jerusalem Post are also

reporting variations on this same story. Some news source in Japan is reporting it as well and claimed highly placed sources.

TMZ is right more than most people want to admit. (I'm no fan). Most recently, they broke the death of Kobe Bryant. Think they also broke Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson tragedies, and others... Epstein suicide?

[Takket]

9. if true, the whole world owes the surgeon a debt of gratitude.........

[Javaman]

10. If true the surgeon, sadly, is probably dead already :( nt

[BComplex]

42. That's probably why his hands were shaking: he had been told if it went sideways, he'd be killed.

Yah, he's probably dead.

[Fla Dem]

62. My thoughts exactly. OTOH, maybe someone (Like Kim's sister) put him up to it. Palace intrique.

[qazplm135]

47. and his kids

spouse, grandkids...

[sop]

14. He'll need political asylum quickly...like yesterday.

[Javaman]

19. After the fuck died on the table the poor surgeon was probably shot moments later :(nt

[Blue_true]

74. He is most likely already dead, machine gunned or fed to tigers. nt

[Marrah_Goodman]

11. Hopefully it is true n/t

[Demovictory9]

56. yep. let Satan take in this murderous MONSTER

[totodeinhere]

76. I would not jump to that conclusion just yet. What if whoever succeeds him is worse? n/t

[MFGsunny]

12. TMZ link is a 404 (broken) now. n/t

[Javaman]

16. I fixed the link. I just checked it works. Nt

[MFGsunny]

17. LINK is FIXED

[Happy Hoosier]

13. Trump will be heartbroken.... NT

[RKP5637]

30. His BFF might be gone, of course he has Putin too as BFF! n/t

[BComplex]

44. If only putin was next.

No, trump should be next! So maybe trump will have a reaction from his hydrochloroquin intake, and he'll grab his chest and collapse. And not ever get up!

[RKP5637]

53. Imagine the toxic stuff he must take each day based on his medical discussions,

Dr. tRump.

[Buns_of_Fire]

55. The only extent of Rump's heartache

will be the loss of a couple hundred bucks for that extravagant bouquet and box of chocolates he sent Kim, without getting anything in return.

His only consolation will be that he didn't pay for it -- the taxpayers did.

[DesertRat]

63. No more love letters. nt

[Bradshaw3]

15. "Botched" as in sorry, not sorry

My bet is some brave surgeon gave his life for his country.

[GemDigger]

41. They said his hands were shaking...

Either the surgeon was terrified of messing it up or the guy was probably already dead and they said make him live. My hands would be shaking too.

[Dem2]

18. ooops

True or not, I'm imagining a surgeon "accidentally" screwing up the surgery.

[sop]

37. His dad, Kim Jong-il, died of a heart attack. Is a heart attack the N. Korean version of polonium?

Or falling out of a fourth-story window? Hmmm.

[Iliyah]

20. Hong Kong and a Japanese article say yes . . .

And it sounds like Kim Jong-un sister is worst then he is

[BComplex]

46. Is that even possible?

The North Korean people are already starving to death and live with no hope whatsoever.

[GP6971]

22. I just checked Yonhap

and nothing there other than Kim Jung UN hasn't been seen for awhile.

[John Fante]

27. Don't dismiss TMZ so flippantly, they've broken the news on many celebrity deaths.

Kobe, for example.

[helpisontheway]

32. TMZ is right regarding a lot of things and they are usually first..We will see..nt

[soryang]

29. These are little more than rumors

Professional NK watchers are disregarding these reports.

Link to tweet

[mwooldri]

31. Nothing on my usual reliable sources (BBC, DW, NHK, ABC(AU)...) ...

... thus I would suspect it's unconfirmed or huge cover-up in DPRK (which wouldn't surprise me).

[Tech]

33. Is it too soon to posts pic of Kim Jong and Trump together with the caption

everything trump touched dies?

[Hekate]

36. Too soon. Wait til they announce the state funeral.

[hlthe2b]

34. An apropos comment from twitter: Kim Jong Un is rumored to be Kim Jong 'Un-derground'

Link to tweet

[Stuart G]

35. It is now at the New York Post at link below.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/25/north-korean-dictator-kim-jong-un-rumored-to-be-dead/

[BComplex]

50. The NY Post is a rightwing National Enquirer rag.

We need to wait for one of the real news desks to say it.

[FirstLight]

38. If it IS true...

who becomes the next in line? aren't they basically a royal succession type of country?

He has no kids...someone says he has a sister?

[demosincebirth]

49. I read some place that she is a little bitch.

[sir pball]

61. Language! And hardly, from what I've read..

..she's smarter, far more capable and cunning. (as the younger sister she had to make her own way), and even more ruthless. About as much a "little bitch" as Catherine the Great.

She wouldn't bother fluffing Cheeto Benito's little...*ahem* Cheeto, she'd just run absolute, humiliating circles around him

[denbot]

39. There goes Shitler's prom date..

Yay!

[crickets]

43. First good laugh of the day! Thanks. nt

[Kaleva]

40. Kim Jong-Un was preceded in death by everyone in and near the operating room.

[Blue_true]

75. Unfortunately, that is likely the case.

At best they survived until Chinese doctors examined the prick.

[Stuart G]

45. There are multiple sources that he is seriously ill..One source says

Chinese doctors have been sent to discover the extent of this..in a moment a link:

[BSdetect]

48. In a vegetative state he's still smarter than drump

[MyOwnPeace]

51. IF it is true.......

can we give them someone who would LOVE to be their dictator - he had been a "best friend" of their last one.......

[milestogo]

52. N. KOREA DICTATOR KIM JONG REPORTEDLY UN-DEAD

[sarisataka]

54. I have found TMZ to be

among the most reliable of sources. In spite of their tabloid presentation, it is rare for them to need to retract a story.

In this case I will take it with a grain of salt pending verification from other sources. The TMZ article notes they have not been able to verify the story

[kairos12]

57. Did he pen any last love notes to Chump?

[Buns_of_Fire]

59. No, but I think Ponpeo has made an official request to the NK government

that they return the big box of chocolates and bouquet that Rump sent. And there'd better not be any candy in the box with a bite taken out of it, or this means war.

[jmbar2]

58. If he is dead, it would make sense that China and S Korea are keeping quiet

They won't want millions of CV infected, starving North Koreans trying to escape. Very tricky situation...

[hunter]

67. North Korea also has a border with Russia.

They are linked by rail over the "Friendship Bridge" which crosses the Tumen River.

Refugees on boats might also sail north.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea%E2%80%93Russia_border

[jmbar2]

72. Maybe that's why tRump and Putin have been talking a lot this week

[slingsam]

60. Ohmigod....did he catch the Trump Virus?

See what you get for reading Trump's love letters without gloves and a face mask????????????

[ancianita]

64. TMZ is almost never wrong.

[bdamomma]

65. hmm.....

all that wickedness does come back to get them in the end.

[Soph0571]

66. Not seeing it anywhere in the mainstream

BBC is not reporting it so I think TMZ may be a tad previous on this one

[Goodheart]

68. Calling Matt Stone and Trey Parker to make a comedy of this.

Not that it isn't already.

[UTUSN]

73. Seth ROGAN and James FRANCO!1

[BobTheSubgenius]

69. Rules of decorum state that we should find something good to say about the dead.

If he's dead, good.

I know it's old, but I love that joke all the same.

[EndlessWire]

70. LOL! n/t

[EndlessWire]

71. Party train to resort area--

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1273905/kim-jong-un-dead-kim-jong-un-health-latest-kim-jong-un-train-north-korea-news

Celebrating or picking up the body?

Look at all the dismal headlines alongside this article. Not a good time to have Trump as CiC. Biden can't get here soon enough.

[Calculating]

77. We can only hope

I know it's wrong to celebrate people dying, but KJU is/was a true sadistic asshole through and through. Not a single redeeming thing about him.