If you believe Japanese news reports on North Korea, you might believe this — someone resembling KJI’s only slightly wacky son Kim Jong-nam was seen visiting a Paris hospital neurosurgery ward… with speculation being he was doing so on behalf of his dad.
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…argh! I saw this via my google rss feeds earlier, and from a reputable news source, and it’s been pushed out… I’d love to know if it’s true. But in case anyone hasn’t seen this article regarding NK’s threat to turn South Korea into ashes, likely due in part to the rumours of KJI’s health: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49R10E20081028?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
I know doctors take the Hipocratic(sp?)oath, but what is it with someone actually wanting to help an evil piece of sh*t like Jong-Il?
Really? This fat, megalomaniacal psycho wants medical assistance and you say “okay”? WTF?
It always seems to be the French doctors who volunteer to help these bloodthirsty dicatators. I just read a book by one of Saddam Hussein’s insiders who talks about European doctors regularly treating Hussein, his family and cronies while the country starved. French doctors were usually involved.
Damn, would these French doctors have helped out Hilter, Stalin, or Pol Pot?
I have seen the films taken and it is definitely Kim Jong Nam, no mistake. Definitely him. Kudos to Fuji TV for this excellent scoop. The reporter got several questions in and Jong Nam just refused to answer, only wryly smiling (various interpretations on why, but I think he was just embarrassed at being caught). More interesting, the neurosurgeon was later found arriving at the Paris airport to check in for a flight to Beijing, along with a North Korean diplomatic escort. When asked if he was going to the DPRK, he answered “I do not know.” At any rate, this strongly suggest that KJI needs surgery, which pretty much confirms what was already an open secret, and one can speculate that even the most optimistic scenario would be recovery from brain surgery. (Now just ask yourself this: If you were the one holding the scalpel, what would you do??).
I would add, how come is never the Korean networks that catch Jong Nam hobnobbing in Paris or Beijing? Do they even know he North Korean embassy car license plates??
Now just ask yourself this: If you were the one holding the scalpel, what would you do??
I would never be the one holding the scalpel. Not only for ethical reasons like Benicio74 says but also for self-preservation: Do you want to be holding the scalpel when the big guy dies?
I would add, how come is never the Korean networks that catch Jong Nam hobnobbing in Paris or Beijing? Do they even know he North Korean embassy car license plates??
Because Korean media outlets don’t have the budget to watch every move of Kim Jong Nam in order to write stories to whip up fear in the Japanese public? Just a guess.
That ol’ ethical question about having the chance to rid the world of Hitler ever coming to power by killing him when he was a child…..
I’m really surprised KJI has kept power this long. Don’t at least the generals know that the DPRK is broken and not going to get fixed with the present regime?
i asked dda, the same ethical question about his country’s doctors.
he never replied.
USA doctors sit around inside the US, knowing well that some poor kid in a Philippines remote island is probably in dire need of one. Or some poor kid in Pakistan needs one, but alas, that doctor fled Pakistan, you see.
the obvious answer is l’argent.
something I do remember from French class.
i think it’s more amusing that Kim Jong Il considers North Korea’s top brain doctors educated in Kim Il Sung University to be untrustworthy or incapable of taking care of him.
you don’t see Lee Myungbak or Park Junghee send money for a US doctor from Harvard, etc.
“Don’t at least the generals know that the DPRK is broken and not going to get fixed with the present regime?”
The only one’s he hasn’t had killed are the ones who won’t care as long as he keeps sending them swag (bottles of cognac, luxury cars, ladies,…).
#8,
Just imagine how many people could have been fed with the money they will spend on the surgery.
Imagine all the people who could have been fed with his annual budget for cognac!
If I was a doctor in this situation, it would not get to the point of me holding the scalpel. If his arrogantly rotund turd of an offspring came around asking for medical assistance, I would tell him to sod off and rot in hell.
Funny that the French doctors always seem to be the ‘go to’ guys for when the world’s sh*theads need medical treatment!
I hope the Norks decide to just keep that doctor!
Just imagine how many people could have been fed with the money they will spend on the surgery.
Imagine all the people who could have been fed with his annual budget for cognac!
Death because of starvation in North Korea is not because of a lack of resources. If North Korea’s wealth were spread around instead of hoarded for loyalists the people could be fed.
Funny that the French doctors always seem to be the ‘go to’ guys for when the world’s sh*theads need medical treatment!
Fucking Médecins Sans Frontières assholes!
“Fucking Médecins Sans Frontières assholes!”
I appreciate your sarcasm.
wjk, when the Chairman of Samsung fell ill he did not trust his own Samsung hospital (consider to be the best hospitals in Korea) he instead went to the US.
#13 Médecins Sans Frontières and some French doctors eagerly helping psychotic dictators who dine on the blood of their own people are two extremely different things!
Pull your head out!!!
Pull your head out!!!
Pull that stick out of your ass. It was a joke.
Oops, I took it seriously.
My bad!
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