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Socks · Joined: 15 May 2008 Location: somewhere in here...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=627370

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has been dead for years and replaced by a number of look-alikes, a Japanese academic claims.

North Korea expert Professor Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor of international relations, says Kim died of diabetes in 2003 and has been substituted by up to four body doubles ever since.

Driven by a fear of assassination, Kim allegedly trained his doppelgangers � one of whom underwent plastic surgery � to attend public appearances.

"Scholars don�t trust my reasoning but intelligence people see the possibility that it will turn out to be accurate," Fox News reported Professor Shigemura as saying.

"I have identified and pinned down every source."

Kim, 66, has not appeared in public for three weeks amid rumours he is seriously unwell.

While Seoul intelligence officials have said they believe he has diabetes and heart problems, they do not think he is near death.

But Professor Shigemura, from Tokyo's respected Waseda University, believes that Kim actually died sometime during a 42-day absence from public in September 2003.

He claims that whenever anyone is granted a face-to-face meeting with today's Kim, a senior official is always by his side "like a puppet master".

Professor Shigemura's claims, outlined in his book The True Character of Kim Jong-il, have been disputed by North Korean officials.

I don't know if there is any truth behind this - but just wanted to see what other people think...

Rusty Shackleford · Joined: 08 May 2008

I wish this were true but the same rumours about Saddam never came to anything.

Somebody should assasinate that guy though. And his cousin Menta-Li Il. Zing!

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:10 am Post subject:

Yesterday · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:06 am Post subject:

If he did die - would the north ever tell anybody - wouldn't we have to live with his "doubles" for the next 50 years...?

Socks · Joined: 15 May 2008 Location: somewhere in here...

milspecs · Joined: 19 Jun 2008

he has a crazy son just waiting to take over

IncognitoHFX · Joined: 06 May 2007 Location: Yeongtong, Suwon

Hear that America?

Gogogogogogogogogogogogogo...

Areut · Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Location: Behind You!!!!

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

He wears lift shoes... that explains the 2.5 cm.

Also, if you compare those photos, the ears are perfect. Ears are something that even the best plastic surgeons can't duplicate correctly.

That Japanese guy is just drawing attention to himself. KJI ain't dead.

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

the foystein · Joined: 23 Apr 2007

I knew a lady who was a secretary at the CIA. In Mao's last years they also thought he was dead. Whenever a new picture would appear she would send it to an ear specialist in Iowa.

IncognitoHFX · Joined: 06 May 2007 Location: Yeongtong, Suwon

OnTheOtherSide · Joined: 29 Feb 2008

It is definantly possible.

At least once a month i'll see a guy on the street who looks exactly like Kim Jong Il. With a little surgery and training, it would be easy for someone to pull it off.

TheKudzuConnection · Joined: 27 Jun 2008

Shigemura must be a Kagemusha fan.

In Kagemusha, the imposter becomes bold and makes a mistake, revealing his identity. After that, the late ruler's son takes over the Takeda clan and leads an attack on a rival clan. The rival clan wipes out the Takeda.

So maybe Kim Jong-il's imposter will be revealed, and Kim Jong-chul will take over North Korea and attack South Korea, and South Korea will defeat North Korea and take over its territory.

Just a thought.