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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (front) on Tuesday looks at presents from Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang (center), who visited the Stalinist country to mark the 50th anniversary of the friendship treaty. Kim's son and heir Jong-un is seen in the background. /Xinhua-Yonhap
Via the Chosun Ilbo.
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1:22 pm on July 15th, 2011 1
Wow, Jong Il looks like a melting wax figure. I hope the yellow vase is for his future ashes.
3:32 pm on July 15th, 2011 2
KJI is looking really frail
3:54 pm on July 15th, 2011 3
Nothing about that picture looks fake?
5:13 pm on July 15th, 2011 4
#3,
It can’t be him. The guy in the officially released pictures doesn’t look a day over 60. This man looks like he’s pushing 90.
5:13 pm on July 15th, 2011 5
Kim Jong-un looks butt-ugly in this untouched picture.
5:38 pm on July 15th, 2011 6
ArchieB, what about it looks fake to you? What would they need to fake and why?
5:39 pm on July 15th, 2011 7
Calling pictures of KJI fake because he’s actually near death is soooo 2009.
10:55 pm on July 15th, 2011 8
Kim Jong-un looks like Kim Il-sung if he became a pornstar. The end is nigh.
10:42 am on July 16th, 2011 9
Get a group of people together and take pictures of them without anything being staged or rehearsed. Can you see everyone’s face? Can you see everyone’s expression? No. Some of those in the background were added for effect.
11:31 am on July 16th, 2011 10
I see what you mean, ArchieB.
After so many people went through that orgy of “Photoshop!” cries back in 2009 because they were sure he was near death, I get a little skeptical when people say that about KJI pictures (I was one of the few who said he questioned the death knell), and frankly, I wondered if you were doing that, but I didn’t want to jump to conclusions.
I agree that some of those in the back do look like they were added in, but that still goes to the question of who is doing it and why. Note that the picture came from Xinhua (though they may have gotten it from the KCNA).
9:01 pm on July 20th, 2011 11
ArchieB may find this interesting.