US source: North Korean leader in grave danger after surgery

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Source: cnn

(CNN)The US is monitoring intelligence that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, is in grave danger after a surgery, according to a US official with direct knowledge.

Kim recently missed the celebration of his grandfather's birthday on April 15, which raised speculation about his well-being. He had been seen four days before that at a government meeting.

CNN has reached out to the CIA, National Security Counsel and the State Department for comment. CNN has also sought comment from the South Koreans.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/politics/kim-jong-un-north-korea/index.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Thoughts and prayers?

[Traildogbob]

2. Fact......

Everything trump touches, dies. He never ever said he loved his own kids, but openly expressed he and Kim’s love affair. Good luck Melanoma, guessing he has touched you. Barron should be really safe.

[Dopers_Greed]

3. Gastric bypass surgery?

[jmowreader]

10. I don't think so, at least not in the DPRK

If that's what he had, he would have gone out of the country to get it.

A small passing thought occurs: North Korea claims it has no coronavirus in its country. Is it possible that KJU actually has COVID-19, and they're calling it "surgery" as a cover story?

[certainot]

15. for a patriot on the inside giving him a case of covid would be good strategy

[BlueStater]

4. Sucks to be the surgery team in charge of saving his evil ass.

I know he’ll just be replaced with another despicable lump of human garbage and things won’t improve for the citizens of NK, but I’ll still take pleasure in this vile waste of skin eating it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Or they'll do some sort of Breakfast at Bernie's thing

and prop up his corpse whenever there's a big public event, for as long as they can get away with it.

[LeftInTX]

5. I remember when he disappeared in 2014

We had a silent thread for him.

?itok=d6k878rd

[LudwigPastorius]

8. Hunh...if you'd asked me, when this picture was taken, which one of these fat fucks would...

bite the big one first, I'd have said it's a toss up.

[47of74]

12. Hey that's insulting to fat fucks to compare them to these two

Fat fucks often have at least a few redeeming qualities, unlike either of these pieces of shit.

[Rhiannon12866]

20. Here ya go:

A silent thread for Kim Jong-Un
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10025652411

[Kitchari]

6. Not surprisingly, the article states no more info is available

Due to the constricts on reporting in North Korea

[LudwigPastorius]

7. So, are we looking at a 10-year-old head of state if Kim dies?

Whatever the actual line of succession is, if he checks into Club Mud, there's going to be a huge power struggle between wannabees.

Governing chaos and nuclear weapons don't go together well.

[uppityperson]

9. There is no official line of succession.

[LudwigPastorius]

13. Great.

Just when you thought 2020 had reached its full potential as a dumpster fire of a year, the possibility of pandemonium in a country with nuclear weapons raises its head.

[OhioChick]

35. I thought it would be his sister, Kim Yo Jong n/t

[bigworld]

17. It could only be Ri Sol-ju

his wife. At least temporarily.

[LudwigPastorius]

26. I'm not sure that would fly.

There's a lot of rhetoric about the equality of the sexes in the DPRK, but few actual female leaders in the party. It's still really a stifling patriarchal society when it comes to those in power.

[jmowreader]

18. I believe the army would take that opportunity to end the Kim dynasty

KJU had Defense Minister Hyon Yong-chol executed with an antiaircraft gun for falling asleep during one of KJU's speeches. They're probably still pissed about that.

[LudwigPastorius]

25. A dicey proposition...

I'm not sure if the cult of personality that has been built around the ruling family would make such a move wise, or survivable.

They'd be better off installing Kim's son as a puppet.

[jmowreader]

36. Kim's son is 10 years old

As for cults of personality, Mussolini was the beneficiary of a very strong cult of personality. He ended up shot dead and hung by the feet from the canopy of a gas station.

There's also the nonzero chance the Army has already executed KJU and is just using the "surgical complications" thing as a cover story.

[3Hotdogs]

29. Executed with an antiaircraft gun.... reminds me of a scene in "The Magic Christian."

Skeet shooting with Ringo Star. Club members yell, "pull." Live birds are released and shot.

Ringo yells pull. An antiaircraft gun has camo removed from it and the bird is decimated.

[htuttle]

11. Generalissimo Francisco Franco has been hospitalized and is very ill

Madrid denies the reports.

[texasfiddler]

14. I'm jealous

[Sloumeau]

19. Does this mean that Trump will no longer be able to get on his knees...

and kiss Kim Jung Un's butt? Oh no, whatever will Trump do?

[meow2u3]

21. Thoughts and prayers...

...for Kim Jung Un kicking the bucket and a united, democratic Korea.

[MarcA]

23. +1,000 n/t

[MarcA]

22. Despot Dictators are not immune to illness and disease

and their regimes are not immune from collapse.

[elleng]

37. THANK YOU!

Best 'news' I've seen today.

[jayfish]

24. "surgery"

Uh huh...

[pbmus]

27. Hate to be anybody in that surgery...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. Explains his highly unusual absence from recent celebrations of father & grandfather days ago. . nt

[yaesu]

30. Maybe he got overly excited after trumps latest love letter & suffered a heart attack. nt

[Judi Lynn]

31. Saturday Trump boasted HE got 'a nice note' from the North Korean guy!

North Korea denies that Kim sent Trump ‘a nice note’
Its foreign ministry referred to the story as “ungrounded.”

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

04/19/2020 12:46 PM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Sunday dismissed as “ungrounded” President Donald Trump’s comment that he recently received “a nice note” from the North’s leader, Kim Jong Un.

Trump said during a press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic Saturday that “I received a nice note from him recently. It was a nice note. I think we’re doing fine.” Trump also defended now-stalled nuclear diplomacy with Kim, saying the U.S. would have been at war with North Korea if he had not been elected.

North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that there was no letter addressed to Trump recently by “the supreme leadership,” a reference to Kim.

It said it would examine why the U.S. leadership released “the ungrounded story” to the media.

More:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/19/north-korea-denies-kim-trump-nice-note-194952

[LudwigPastorius]

32. So, we're supposed to believe the word of a fanatical, murderous personality cult of a regime...

that has propped up an incompetent megalomaniac who threatens world peace and brings nothing but death and misery to his people?

Not me. I believe the North Koreans.

[CloudWatcher]

41. noise

... both sides have the reliability of tea leaves.

[Warpy]

33. Part of his godlike image is that he never has to take a shit

so there's that possibility, also.

Alas, it was only cardiovascular. Of course, that covers one hell of a lot of territory and he's awfully young for it, only 37. I wonder if his doctors will have the guts to tell him the party's over.

[EllieBC]

34. Well I don't have anything nice to say so...NT.

[MiniMe]

38. If he did have open heart surgery, you are in intensive care after the surgery

I know nothing about this reporting, just thought I'd put in what is normal after open heart surgery. I was intensive care for almost a week after a quadruple bypass, and I have no memory of most of that time.

[CloudWatcher]

40. skeptical...

Wonder if this surgery even happened or if he's just keeping low due to covid-19? Or maybe he's on a respirator. Who knows.

[sinkingfeeling]

42. Will MF45 fly to his bedside?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

43. He could send Dennis Rodman as ambassador.

Better have Rodman pack a nice black mourning gown, just in case.

[Paladin]

44. I'm dubious, given N. Korea's florid press reporting.

But if trump ends up losing one of his best buddies, I sure as hell won't shed a tear.