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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: Kim Jong Il has been assassinated |
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Well maybe or maybe not.
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South Korea Says Report of Kim's Death `False' (Update1)
By Heejin Koo
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May 29 (Bloomberg) -- Reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il had been assassinated are `false,' South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Ho Nyun said.
``We have been able to determine that the reports are false,'' Kim said in a telephone interview.
South Korean internet service Hankuk News reported late yesterday that Kim had been assassinated outside Pyongyang on May 26, citing unidentified officials in China and South Korea.
North Korea's official Korea Central News Agency in a report dated yesterday said Kim visited a chemical factory to give ``on-the-spot guidance.'' The report did not say when Kim visited the site.
Kim, known for his bouffant hairdo and zip-front olive-green jackets, has led the isolated communist nation of 23 million people since his father Kim Il Sung died in 1994. The little that is known of Kim outside of North Korea tends to come through the filter of the state-run media.
To contact the reporter on this story: Heejin Koo in Seoul at [email protected]
Last Updated: May 28, 2008 22:32 EDT |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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Anybody got the original story?
Can't find it anywhere. |
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victorology
Joined: 10 Sep 2007
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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Not that one
I copied and pasted that.
The Korean one where they claim he was assassinated. |
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davyteacher

Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Location: Busan, South Korea.
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Yesterday

Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 3:08 am Post subject: |
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some Korean media will do anything to try to get their ratings higher...
this time it was - NewsHankuk.com
obviously just a false story to try to get higher ratings... |
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ryouga013
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 8:58 am Post subject: |
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some Korean media will do anything to try to get their ratings higher...
this time it was - NewsHankuk.com
obviously just a false story to try to get higher ratings... |
and yet, nothing ever happens to stop them from doing it again... |
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Bryan
Joined: 29 Oct 2007
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| Yesterday wrote: |
some Korean media will do anything to try to get their ratings higher...
this time it was - NewsHankuk.com
obviously just a false story to try to get higher ratings... |
How does losing customers and tarnishing your name get you "higher ratings"? |
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Hobophobic

Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Location: Sinjeong negorie mokdong oh ga ri samgyup sal fighting
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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Is he indulging himself with a tall can of Sapporo?!...If so, he likely will be assassinated...How many cool ones did he have?...did you give him a cooler full of TsingTao and throw a few trick-beers in there for that photo op?!...you sly imperialist! |
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genezorm

Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: Mokpo
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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| kind of like the time one korean media outlet reported bill gates had died |
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