Kim’s waistline starting to look like everyone else’s in North Korea
posted at 10:10 am on July 5, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Diabetes? Heart illness? Or is he, like the rest of the country, on “the Mugabe diet” now too?
Readers in South Korea woke up today to frantic speculation about the shrinking paunch of one of the world’s more reclusive celebrities: North Korea’s Stalinist dictator, Kim Jong-il…
“Emaciated Kim Jong-il,” said the headline in the Dong-a Ilbo.
“The 66-year-old North Korean leader looked thinner, with serious hair loss and dry skin,” said Chosun Ilbo, the nation’s leading conservative daily.
Both papers suggested Kim’s appearance confirmed reports, including by The Telegraph, that he had been seriously unwell…
Over the years, while his country has fed on grass and bark as it laboured to overcome famine, Kim, who is 65 by western reckoning, has developed a reputation as a gourmet to match that for carefully calculated diplomatic brinkmanship.
While at first this was put down to western propaganda, reports from former cooks added evidence that is now considered irrefutable.
Would it be wrong to hope that the end is near? Actually, yeah, maybe.
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Rumor has it , that he is down to 3 cats a day.
TheSitRep on July 5, 2007 at 10:17 AM
I’ve given up wishing evil dictators dead. As a rule the bastards live unnaturally long lives.
Blake on July 5, 2007 at 10:19 AM
In other words, he’s 66.
James on July 5, 2007 at 10:19 AM
Top photo taken in Apr on Military Founders Day.
Bottom photo taken on Jul 4 in Pyongyang with Japanese Foreign Minister.
HadaAbeche on July 5, 2007 at 10:28 AM
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1371/726643545_e88b532419_m.jpg
HadaAbeche on July 5, 2007 at 10:29 AM
Did that sentence make sense?
DaveS on July 5, 2007 at 10:33 AM
Maybe one of those is clogging his digestion.
infidel4life on July 5, 2007 at 10:33 AM
Sure…his reputation for eating lavishly, gourmet style, is equal to his reputation for carefully calculated diplomatic brinkmanship, nuclear blackmail style.
James on July 5, 2007 at 10:47 AM
Well, he is the bwavest, most hansome, most fizzickwy fit,
it’ about time that we we-a-wized it.
Mr. Bingley on July 5, 2007 at 10:51 AM
Maybe he’s on Atkins … or Southbeach … or Jenny Craig, or the Hollywood Diet, or Dan Marino’s breakthrough science of the glycemic advantage, or …
Tony737 on July 5, 2007 at 10:53 AM
Haha! So far Mr. Bingley is winning this thwead!
He doesn’t have time to eat, when asked why, Kim replied: “DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW F#CKING BUSY I AM???”
Tony737 on July 5, 2007 at 10:56 AM
cinnajack
TheSitRep on July 5, 2007 at 11:04 AM
We must bear in mind that this is Clinton’s creation. His solution to the problem of North Korea? GIVE THEM THE ATOMIC BOMB! Nice move moron.
Mojave Mark on July 5, 2007 at 11:53 AM
I’ll take “Cancer” for $1000, Alex.
Pablo on July 5, 2007 at 12:44 PM
KIM JONG-IL: Aw, you blakin’ my barrs, Arrah…
ScottMcC on July 5, 2007 at 12:46 PM
I’m looking at the pictures and thinking, “you know, I look a lot thinner without a heavy coat on too!”. Besides, isn’t black always “thinning”?
I know I’m not the greatest judge on such things, especially with just a couple pictures to go on, but he doesn’t exaclty look emaciated to me. Nor do a see a significant loss of hair. But dry skin? That’s something you have to watch out for!
taznar on July 5, 2007 at 1:03 PM
Or maybe…
I wonder if he ever personally checked on their nuclear facilities…. Just a wild thought (losing weight and hair, dry skin…).
taznar on July 5, 2007 at 1:09 PM
Tainted Chinese
DogFood?Kini on July 5, 2007 at 1:27 PM
Maybe he lost weight on a hike back to his birth place on Baekdu mountain, one of many fairy tales in his bio. If this is not the case then one the mini-Kims will have to be fed and put into circulation after a suitable myth of his mystical powers and ordained leadership have been fed to the masses.
Annar on July 5, 2007 at 2:59 PM
That’s the equivalent of a $1250 hair cut.
Entelechy on July 5, 2007 at 3:34 PM
Maybe they finally came out with the “Six-Pack Ab’s” exercise series in Korean?
Hening on July 5, 2007 at 4:50 PM
He’s finally received Richard Simmons Disco Sweat. And more than that, he actually used it. Putting him in the top 10% of the population….
Canadian Infidel on July 5, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Tae Bo.
mikeyboss on July 5, 2007 at 7:09 PM
All these years of that horrible regime and only the South Park team had the guts to give the mocking that this bizzarro dictator had long deserved. When North Korea is finally liberated it’ll be like pulling the abused child out of the closet he’d been locked in for ten years. Only “children” in the millions and locked up tens of years. Stunted, dazed, unable to function. Hate it that the MSM chats up the Supreme Leader so irresponsibly.
naliaka on July 5, 2007 at 8:57 PM
Oh man,
Fell for it. I wanted to see the clip of Team America and Hans blik being fed to the sharks. Instead just got a story about some… maybe… possible… health problem. Talk about your False advertisment.
unseen on July 5, 2007 at 11:38 PM
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