By Okay so who believes these latest pictures from North Korea?:
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released a photo of Kim smiling at something on a sofa in what appears to be the VIP box of a football stadium, while another photo showed the football field.
? ? The release was made hours after the KCNA reported that Kim watched a game between two army teams named Mangyongbong and Jebi together with army soldiers.
?? The Korean Central TV aired 14 photos of Kim watching the match and giving instruction to officials accompanying him.
?? However, when and where the photos were taken was not mentioned.
?? Seoul officials said they are analyzing the photos to determine if Kim is healthy enough to attend a soccer match. [Yonhap]
The Yonhap report also speculates that Kim’s hand looks feeble in the above picture which may be more evidence that he in fact had a stroke. I don’t think the picture tells a whole lot of anything about Kim’s condition but the fact that the North Koreans have not provided conclusive proof Kim is healthy is enough evidence to me that he did in fact have some kind of health issue.
5:09 am on November 2nd, 2008 1
Either his body-double was having a bad hair day, or "Our Dear Leader" is on his last legs…
8:40 am on November 2nd, 2008 2
I noticed his hand also, even before I read the post, Looks like he has had a stroke in this photo even though we are not sure when it was taken.
also, the smile is not a grin of pleasure.
12:17 pm on November 2nd, 2008 3
It has been reported that Kim had brain surgery. Brain surgery due to a stroke is only done in the most serious of cases. If so, where is his bandage, or hair cut due to the surgery? I, for one, am not buying the " back to normal" pictures.(Its scares me enough that he looks so much like my 'mother-in-law').