Kim Jung Un???

[normiss 622]

HKSTV Hong Kong Satellite Television is reporting his death.

I expect Trump will show more emotion for KJU than for the Americans killed by the corona virus.

 

IIRC, there is no named successor in place.

 

 

[gowlerk 1,911]

23 minutes ago, normiss said:

HKSTV Hong Kong Satellite Television is reporting his death.

I expect Trump will show more emotion for KJU than for the Americans killed by the corona virus.

 

IIRC, there is no named successor in place.

 

 

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[headoverheels 291]

38 minutes ago, normiss said:

 

IIRC, there is no named successor in place.

 

I heard the speculation a couple of days ago that it would be his sister.

 

[ryoder 1,384]

I knew the end was near when Trump denied the reports he was ill.

 

[normiss 622]

I'm curious what China might do, given current world politics.

[jakee 1,254]

4 hours ago, ryoder said:

I knew the end was near when Trump denied the reports he was ill.

 

Although - If you are going to create a viral image of #KimJongUn and claim it to be ‘leaked on a Singapore news network’ it would rather help to not have the strap line in Japanese.

Edited April 25, 2020 by jakee

[Phil1111 910]

9 hours ago, normiss said:

HKSTV Hong Kong Satellite Television is reporting his death.

I expect Trump will show more emotion for KJU than for the Americans killed by the corona virus.

I missed the couple seconds where trump has shown any sorrow for any American fatality. Please post that example. ........I'm just yanking your chain, There is no such record.

A  S.Korea expert suggested that it has to be a Kim relative and that the military has to support it. So there is a uncle, then his sister in line. The winner will kill the other to show the military sufficient homicidal leadership. Naturally a purge will follow.

China will likely watch and wait.

[ryoder 1,384]

[JerryBaumchen 1,048]

15 hours ago, gowlerk said:

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Hi Ken,

'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.'

I would not want to be that doctor.

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

Jerry Baumchen

PS)  Sort of reminds me when Stalin had his stroke; the doctors were scared sh**less about what to do.  Not one of them wanted to be the last doctor to treat him.

 

[ryoder 1,384]

1 hour ago, JerryBaumchen said:

PS)  Sort of reminds me when Stalin had his stroke; the doctors were scared sh**less about what to do.  Not one of them wanted to be the last doctor to treat him.

I recently saw a hilarious clip from this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/

Nikita Khrushchev: "If he recovers, then we got a good doctor. If he doesn't recover, then we didn't. But, he won't know."

 

I've put the film on my "To Watch" list.

[JoeWeber 2,299]

2 hours ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi Ken,

'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.'

I would not want to be that doctor.

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

Jerry Baumchen

PS)  Sort of reminds me when Stalin had his stroke; the doctors were scared sh**less about what to do.  Not one of them wanted to be the last doctor to treat him.

 

Now it's Un-Kim Jong, I guess. I'm just hoping it wasn't a stent procedure but a glass of Lysol instead.

[yoink 321]

6 hours ago, ryoder said:

Hahahahaha! 

[JerryBaumchen 1,048]

1 hour ago, ryoder said:

I've put the film on my "To Watch" list.

Hi Robert,

Well worth watching,

Jerry Baumchen

PS)  This is a good read:

 

[jakee 1,254]

2 hours ago, ryoder said:

I recently saw a hilarious clip from this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/

Nikita Khrushchev: "If he recovers, then we got a good doctor. If he doesn't recover, then we didn't. But, he won't know."

It's hard not to just quote all the dialogue from that film, but there's another exchange that also brilliantly encapsulates the downside of making everyone shit-scared of you. Two guards outside Stalin's study hear the sound of him collapsing. Nothing happens for 5 seconds.

Guard 1: Shouldn't we go in and check on him?

Guard 2: Shouldn't you shut the fuck up before you get us both killed?

 

Stalin isn't discovered until morning.

 

 

 

And the guards were doomed anyway.

[ryoder 1,384]

[kallend 1,623]

On 4/24/2020 at 10:42 PM, headoverheels said:

I heard the speculation a couple of days ago that it would be his sister.

 

Marge (used to post here) made an interesting comment on FB that NK will likely have a female president before the USA.

[turtlespeed 212]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/train-possibly-belonging-kim-jong-spotted-resort-town-200426054657688.html?utm_source=website&utm_medium=article_page&utm_campaign=read_more_links

There is some speculation around that he is staging this melodramatically to see what covert information can be found on him, and how deep the spies are inside his organization.  He's a paranoid person, you know.  Or - at the very least, he WAS . . .

[kallend 1,623]

30 minutes ago, turtlespeed said:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/train-possibly-belonging-kim-jong-spotted-resort-town-200426054657688.html?utm_source=website&utm_medium=article_page&utm_campaign=read_more_links

There is some speculation around that he is staging this melodramatically to see what covert information can be found on him, and how deep the spies are inside his organization.  He's a paranoid person, you know.  Or - at the very least, he WAS . . .

The Kim family is smart, secretive, brutal and cunning.  That explanation is as good as any other.

[Phil1111 910]

32 minutes ago, kallend said:

The Kim family is smart, secretive, brutal and cunning.  That explanation is as good as any other.

Missed paranoid.

[headoverheels 291]

33 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

Missed paranoid.

It's not paranoid if they are after you.

 

[turtlespeed 212]

5 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

Missed paranoid.

I think I had Paranoid covered.

I'm just trying to fathom how John and I agree on something.

[Phil1111 910]

50 minutes ago, turtlespeed said:

I think I had Paranoid covered.

I'm just trying to fathom how John and I agree on something.

I confess that sometimes I skim your posts. Sorry

[turtlespeed 212]

21 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

I confess that sometimes I skim your posts. Sorry

Oh - I understand . . . 

[Faicon9493 114]

On 4/24/2020 at 11:03 PM, normiss said:

HKSTV Hong Kong Satellite Television is reporting his death.

I expect Trump will show more emotion for KJU than for the Americans killed by the corona virus.

 

IIRC, there is no named successor in place.

 

 

One more funeral Trump won't be welcomed to attend......

[ryoder 1,384]

On 4/25/2020 at 4:44 PM, jakee said:

It's hard not to just quote all the dialogue from that film, but there's another exchange that also brilliantly encapsulates the downside of making everyone shit-scared of you. Two guards outside Stalin's study hear the sound of him collapsing. Nothing happens for 5 seconds.

Guard 1: Shouldn't we go in and check on him?

Guard 2: Shouldn't you shut the fuck up before you get us both killed?

Stalin isn't discovered until morning.

And the guards were doomed anyway.

I just finished watching it. I had never heard of Beria, so I did some reading. Good gawd!!! If anything, the portrayal in the film made him look like a choirboy compared to reality. Those ~350 allegations of rape were documented by his own bodyguard. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria#Sexual_predator