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This undated picture, released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Dec.17, 2011, shows North Korean lreader Kim Jong Il (C), accompanied by his son Kim Jong Un (2nd-L), inspecting the Kwangbok Area Supermarket just before opening in Pyongyang. It is said to be the elder Kim's last public appearance.
By msnbc.com staff and news services
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The official report said that North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il died on a train at 8:30 on Saturday morning after suffering a heart attack during a "high intensity field inspection." State media reported his death on Monday.
Now, North Korea experts in South Korea are calling into question that account, saying North Korea likely made it all up, according to the Chosun Ilbo newspaper website.
Among the details they say don't make sense:
•Freezing weather: Kim was known for a nocturnal lifestyle and rarely got up before noon, and would have unlikely risen early in 20-degree temperatures for a field inspection.
•Train didn't move: South Korea's intelligence director testified that Kim's special train - equipped with four hospital cars - did not move out of the station the entire weekend.
•Witnesses: Kim always traveled with a large entourage, but the news of his death was kept secret for 50 hours.
Citing South Korean sources, the newspaper speculates Kim most likely died at home.
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"Death on the train is possibly the best story that the North Korean regime can use to promote Kim as a hardworking leader who worked for the people until the moment he died. North Koreans would feel there's a huge difference between an easy and peaceful death in his bed and death at work far from home," a South Korean source told the newspaper.
Meanwhile, South Korea's main opposition party is calling for the dismissal of top intelligence, security and foreign affairs officials for failing to know about Kim's death before it was officially announced.
Politics trump hunger in North Korea
The South Korean defense minister and other officials have acknowledged that they learned of Kim's death at the same time Pyongyang's state media told the world Monday.
The admission has caused anger among many South Koreans who worry that Kim's death might trigger instability on the Korean peninsula.
The Democratic Party said Wednesday that President Lee Myung-bak should fire officials responsible for the intelligence lapse.
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182 comments, including:
Dear God, I’m sorry, but I don’t know anyone who will miss this pudgy, obnoxious twerp.
truthfinder3
Who is going to believe these lying criminal scumbag officials of NK? The only bad thing is all his top criminal thug henchmen did not die with him.
The international scumbag outlaw Assad should have a bullet put through his head ASAP! Other scumbag criminal heads of state like Omar al-Bashir (Sudan), Afewerki (Eritera), Karimov (Uzbekistan), and a handful of others should meet the same fate. Thankfully the pot bellied pig sucking scumbag faggot Kim Jong of NK died this week-hopefully a painful death.
18 votes#1 - Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:15 PM EST
sandtrich
Does it matter whether he was riding in a train or blowing his dog? He's dead.
40 votes#1.1 - Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:17 PM EST
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Judas-1953669
I thought he died on a boat with a goat?
Or did he die from eating lox with a fox now he's in a box.
9 votes#1.3 - Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:27 PM EST
xrayspex
Whatever the cause or time of "dear" leader's departure, the bottom line is the world is a better place without this needle d*ck in it !!
Here's hoping that the new "dear" leader is able to initiate reforms* and allow NK to rejoin the world community !!
*xrayspex won't hold his breath waiting for this to occur.
4 votes#1.4 - Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:31 PM EST
kb1905
Is it just me, or does anybody really care how the Piece Of Schlitz died..???
7 votes#1.5 - Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:38 PM EST
Sam
I heard he was murdered by a high ranking security officer, that was pissed over losing his job. Im sure it will be coming out sometime in the next few yrs, probably little by little..
2 votes#1.6 - Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:49 PM EST
R T Foy
That would be great x-spex, it is a positive end to decades of oppression, however I would have to believe that there are many hard-line military personnel who are not likely to sit quietly by while the people are given back their country and lives. Nor do I believe that China is just sitting twiddling their thumbs waiting to see what happens next. I hope the armchair demagoguery in Washington, are taking measures to ensure that our people stationed on the DMZ are being supported with extra measures encase the @!$%# hits the fan.
1 vote#1.7 - Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:53 PM EST
Mac Forrester
As Sandtrich said, the man is dead. What does it matter where he was when he died? The real question here should be; did He die a natural death or did someone step on him?
4 votes#1.8 - Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:28 PM EST
Ed-NavDoc
Who cares how and/or where the stunted runt kicked the bucket! He's dead. That's what really counts!
3 votes#1.9 - Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:30 PM EST
Joey Cadogan
MJ Smith is a piece of chit, move your stupid @ss to Communist China you walking scumbag
2 votes#1.10 - Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:19 PM EST
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