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US officials think Kim Jong Il may be ill

ap.google.com — Western officials say there are signs that North Korea's unpredictable dictator may be gravely ill, after the man North Koreans call the "Dear Leader" apparently failed to show up at an important national celebration Tuesday.

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  • diggonit, on 09/09/2008, -1/+39He be Ill'n.
  • AlexanderBlue, on 09/09/2008, -3/+17It's being rumored that he may have had a stroke, and that a team of Chinese doctors had been summoned to examine Kim Jong-Il. The "important national celebration" he missed was the country's 60th anniversary.

    Also see:
    BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7606566.st ... and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7605615.st ...
    New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/world/asia/10kor ...
    CNN - http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/09/north. ...
  • h0ser, on 09/09/2008, -3/+18excellent title
  • bishop, on 09/09/2008, -1/+36Bad news for the man, great news for the people of North Korea and the rest of the world...
    • Jabrams2, on 09/09/2008, -0/+13Amen to that. There are very few people I don't mind hearing that they're gravely ill. This guy cracks the list
    • sodoh, on 09/10/2008, -0/+7Your assuming he won't take the rest of the world with him (if can)

      I wonder if they will play "I'm so Ronery" at his funeral?
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apyB93-1FHk
      • dixta, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4Yeah, and he'll depart his death bed as a cockroach in a spaceship.

        "YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE RAST OF KIM JONG IRR!"
    • Avaseal, on 09/10/2008, -2/+1Damn the man, save the Empire!
    • Kallius, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1Sadly, he will be revered after his death by many of his countrymen, rather than despised like he deserves. It's truly a shame that some people seem to be immune to karma.
    • techmaster, on 09/10/2008, -1/+2Everybody dies arone. And Kim Jong Il is very ronery.
  • soniyashrma, on 09/09/2008, -1/+7"There is reason to believe Kim Jong Il has suffered a serious health set back, possibly a stroke,"
  • Hiji, on 09/09/2008, -1/+8No doubt he is an ill mutha
  • dreams800, on 09/09/2008, -0/+21No he is hanging out with Elvis and Fidel Castro. They are all at the mall.
  • LakiTheGreatest, on 09/09/2008, -1/+10Kim Jong is playing hide n go seek
  • w0lfh0und, on 09/09/2008, -0/+12It's not so long ago that there were rumors they had been concealing his death for years.
    • GammaStream, on 09/10/2008, -1/+0Well I think the last public appearance was 3 weeks ago.
  • tykwondingo, on 09/09/2008, -4/+12he chillin' an ill'n lika vill'n?
  • m0zzie, on 09/10/2008, -3/+14i didn't know pieces of excrement could have strokes?
  • MrCashyCash, on 09/10/2008, -0/+8I nominate Frank Caliendo to take it from here.
  • mockidol, on 09/10/2008, -2/+22All joking aside, for the sake of the citizens of North Korea I hope he's about to die.
    • Bovorik, on 09/10/2008, -1/+3If the North Koreans become one ***** of refugees trying to get out of the country (heading North over the border into China or possibly even trying to get across the DMZ to the South), things could get very very ugly.
      • kingfelix, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1not uglier than they already are
      • Bovorik, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1If someone starts shooting (say, a rogue DPRK unit on the DMZ) it certainly could.
      • kingfelix, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1An armed confrontation would precipitate the downfall of North Korea. It would be ugly, but for a very short while. After that the destitute people of North Korea would begin to have a chance at the real life they have been robbed of for the last 50 years.
  • DigSomeMore, on 09/10/2008, -1/+5I wonder where he's hiding his nuclear launch codes...
  • mwaleed86, on 09/10/2008, -8/+1DIE MOFO DIE!!
    • japanesepagoda, on 09/10/2008, -1/+3I haven't heard the word 'MOFO' in about 10 years. Why, you ask? Because I am no longer in the 3rd grade.
  • anticon, on 09/10/2008, -0/+2He's had heart problems and Diabetes for a while now. Apparently, he missed a big parade and our intelligence sources realized something must be wrong because he never misses a parade!

    Sounds like the guy loves his meat and candy
    • PGPirate, on 09/10/2008, -0/+2Did someone say Diabeetis?
      • pavanb500, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1Everytime you say Dia beetus, walrus man gets stiff.

  • GammaStream, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1The sad thing is that even if this is true and he does drop dead, it probably isn't going to have much effect on the country. Even thought he has no nature heir, it is still going to be a isolationist police state, it would just be ruled probably by a group of high ranking officials. Similar to Zimbabwe, the people aren't going to rise up and overthrow the government.
    • MiNGLED, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1Quite right, things could go worse for the North Koreans as the various factions fight for who is going to lead. The country hasn't got much going for it at the moment but at least it's stable, once Kim Jong Il is officially dead, the whole place could destabilise.
  • 9bpm9, on 09/10/2008, -1/+2Buried. I think we all know why.
  • djoobacca, on 09/10/2008, -1/+7US officials thought there were WMDs in Iraq. Anytime a sentence starts with "US officials think" I zone out because I know they're full of *****.
  • UtopiaInTheSky, on 09/10/2008, -5/+4Old news is old. 24 hours late, Digg.
    This is why I stopped reading this website for headlines. Even Fox News had this story YESTERDAY morning.
    • Slade605, on 09/10/2008, -1/+4Submitted: 19 hr 38 min ago, made popular 24 min ago
      Obviously you never read upcoming...
    • NorrisOBE, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1So?
    • zdiddy85, on 09/10/2008, -1/+5I don't think you get how this site works. It's not about BREAKING news, you get that from news sites, such as Fox as you so elegantly put it.

      So if you're already reading the breaking news on these other sites you go to, why bother coming in here and being an asshat?
    • artfiend77, on 09/10/2008, -1/+2I'm really happy douches like you don't have full control over Digg. That way, people like me ( who don't spend 27/7 on Digg) can actually read stuff we've never read before.
  • mitthuman, on 09/10/2008, -4/+5of course he's ill...he's ronery
  • homerjs, on 09/10/2008, -5/+11Maybe he's just a "rittle bit ronrey"


    • BobPea, on 09/10/2008, -0/+0this was "Inevitabre!"
    • xero69, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1I'm so Ronery / So ronery / So ronery and sadry arone / There's no one / Just me onry / Sitting on my rittle throne / I work very hard to be number one guy / but, stiwr there's no one to right up my rife / Seems rike no one takes me serirousry / And so, I'm ronery / A rittle ronery / Poor rittle me / There's no one I can rerate to / Feewr rike a biwd in a cage / It's kinda siwry / but, not reawry / because, it's fiwring my body with rage / I'm the smartest, most crever, most physicawry fit / but, none of the women seem to give a ***** / Maybe someday, they'wr awr notice me / And untiwr then, I'wr be ronery / Yeah, a rittle ronery / Poor rittle me...
  • simonjs, on 09/10/2008, -3/+4Kim Jong, ill?
    • dixta, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1Kim Jong IS ill.

      (linguo)
    • eigenweasel, on 09/10/2008, -2/+1Pu Yi, poorly?
      Hu Jintao, fevered brow?
      Mao Tze Dung, collapsed lung?
      Deng Xiao Ping, explosive wind?
  • senatorpjt, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1It's not like Kim dying is going to change NK at all. He's really a figurehead, he spends all his time drinking cognac, watching movies, and picking out stupid-looking sunglasses, I doubt he has much interest in any of the political stuff.

    However, the government does rely on the image of a "dear leader" so maybe it will have some effect on people.
  • Asianwaste, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1but... he's a deity. He does not urinate or defecate like mortal humans
  • Chirp08, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1*****, this guy makes Jobs seem perfectly healthy, he dies like bi-weekly on here
  • bitmanip, on 09/10/2008, -2/+2Best title ever..
  • fatas, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1'I'm Joing IL
  • rex84, on 09/10/2008, -2/+3According to a professor at Japan's Waseda University, North Korea ’s “Dear Leader” passed away in the fall of 2003 and a stand-in has been fooling the world for at least five years.

    http://digg.com/world_news/Is_North_Korea_s_Kim_Jo ...

    http://digg.com/world_news/North_Korea_Uses_Double ...
    • superzulu, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1Why wasn't the stand-in at the celebration then?
      • rex84, on 09/10/2008, -0/+2They're incrementally releasing the semi-truth to the people.
      • Niightwitch, on 09/10/2008, -1/+3He died too.
  • tacostacos83, on 09/10/2008, -1/+5I heard he's been dead since 2003!
  • Ortheos, on 09/10/2008, -6/+2US officials also think Saddam has weapons of mass destruction and the capability to fire them anywhere in the world within 15 minutes.




  • kreatre2007, on 09/10/2008, -2/+5Hopefully, that dog eating pot belly bastard is dead.
  • Cheeseburgers, on 09/10/2008, -2/+21YOU ARE WORFRESS AREC BARWIN!
    • dixta, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4I cant believe you got dugg down, I laughed so hard at this one.
    • Technobull, on 09/10/2008, -0/+5Yourve frucked up my whole plarn and my stock in you has fallren
  • wiretapped, on 09/10/2008, -1/+2The CIA must have "got to him".
    • Niightwitch, on 09/10/2008, -0/+2When you're his age, no one has to "get to you".
      • Asianwaste, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1You fool, that's exactly what they want you to think... or did they "get to you" too?
  • ufia, on 09/10/2008, -4/+4Out of curiosity, I listened to recordings of the Voice of Korea radio broadcasts in English on YouTube, and what striked me is the very great similitude with Ron Paul posts here on Digg. Always addressing him as the 'Dear Leader', and worshiping everything he does as the next big leap for mankind. Ron Paul has the same policies as Kim Jong II, scary!
    • sentinel106, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1It's not that their policies are they same, it's just that they're both fairly sensationalist and have a way of speaking that gets inside the heads of the masses.

      **Doesn't hate Ron Paul
      but doesn't support him either
  • bigteebo, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1North Korean propaganda about Kim Jong Ill is funny. It's like those Chuck Norris facts, but they really do try to pass it off as real.
  • sc0rpi0n, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1He's not ill. He's out there in Japan flirting with Japanese call girls, just like his sons.
  • RobotLeAwesome, on 09/10/2008, -4/+4Haha, it's funny because il is pronounced "ill"
    • dixta, on 09/10/2008, -2/+3Congrats, Einsten.
    • GVR90, on 09/10/2008, -2/+3Really?
    • Asianwaste, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1Proper Korean pronunciation, sounds more like "eel" (with less stress on the "EE" sound) but that kinda makes it all the more funny.
  • p014k, on 09/10/2008, -2/+1I see what you did there.
  • ceredron, on 09/10/2008, -1/+4Kim Jong Il is pretty sick, yo
  • jimmyisprollyth, on 09/10/2008, -1/+2he's ill, not sick
  • tref, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1Hans your breakin my balls here hans your breaking my balls!
  • Bahamut240, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1I guess since Fidel Castro actually is dead the "leader is dead" rumor mill has gone to work on Kim Jong Il. How many times was Fidel Castro dead or deathly ill? Like 20? Ever since the 70s he kept dying over and over.
  • jjallday, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1He's the DEALMAKER!!!1111
  • Iwantawii, on 09/10/2008, -0/+7MATT DAMON!!!!
  • rdp027vm, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1David Letterman: "What about his brother, Mentally Ill?"
  • kc9ews, on 09/10/2008, -0/+2IS HE DEAD YET???
  • jellygraph, on 09/10/2008, -0/+3Maybe they should have named him Kim Jong Healthy
  • Maverick0420, on 09/10/2008, -0/+2Hes just ronwry!
  • bffoley, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1I hope they watched this in North Korea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHzz2cXBlGk

    (work safe)
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