Kim Jong Un reported to have died (unconfirmed)

[billy.pilgrim]

Will there be a doppelganger?

[O Really]

Hologram.

[Vrede too]

Hologram.

There never was a Kim Jong Un. Dear Leader has always been ______________.

[billy.pilgrim]

There's more info trickling out...

Kim Jong Un in ‘vegetative state,’ Japanese media report says

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is in a “vegetative state” after he underwent heart surgery earlier this month, a Japanese magazine says.

The weekly Shukan Gendai reported Friday that a Chinese medic sent to North Korea as part of a team to treat Kim believed a delay in a simple procedure left the leader severely ill, Reuters reported....

The Chinese expert told the magazine that Kim clutched his chest and fell to the ground on a visit to the countryside earlier this month. A doctor accompanying Kim performed CPR and took him to a nearby hospital.

Kim, believed to be 36, needed a stent procedure, which calls for placing a tube into a congested blood vessel to allow blood to keep flowing to the heart, according to Shukan Gendai.

Don't get so excited, he'll be back shooting hole in 1 golf and dunking on Rodman within the week.

[1 CAT FAN]

FSV?

[GoCubsGo]

In other news....

[.Oomba.]

There's more info trickling out...

Kim Jong Un in ‘vegetative state,’ Japanese media report says

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is in a “vegetative state” after he underwent heart surgery earlier this month, a Japanese magazine says.

The weekly Shukan Gendai reported Friday that a Chinese medic sent to North Korea as part of a team to treat Kim believed a delay in a simple procedure left the leader severely ill, Reuters reported....

The Chinese expert told the magazine that Kim clutched his chest and fell to the ground on a visit to the countryside earlier this month. A doctor accompanying Kim performed CPR and took him to a nearby hospital.

Kim, believed to be 36, needed a stent procedure, which calls for placing a tube into a congested blood vessel to allow blood to keep flowing to the heart, according to Shukan Gendai.

I didn't see anything in there about Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini.

Is he still around?

[O Really]

This whole thing is weird. If Kim doesn't show up at the grandfather celebration or another major event, then sure, it's reasonable to wonder if the 5-6 300lb diabetic smoker has health issues. Or maybe he's hiding from the virus. But it seems if he's alive and well, there's better ways to show that than a letter he purportedly wrote. And how did at least somewhat credible sources jump from "he missed the celebration" to detailed recounts of heart surgery and a "shaking hands surgeon" and Chinese experts visiting and all that? And if he is just on walkabout, why send out the "he's fine" statement with the letter anyway? A broken country with a crazy leader. (oh yeah, and that applies to N Korea, too)