Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/25/china-sends-doctors-to-north-k.html
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The Donald will be absolutely devastated, I’m sure.
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Nope. Trump doesn’t like vegetables.
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Hey, @beschizza, the second link to Shukan Gendai just goes to a BB 404 page.
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Now the question is if NK will get better or worse after the psycho is gone. Who’s next in line?
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What’s the succession plan involving this awful family? It’s not like Bob’s Big Boy has an heir lined up to take over the state cult.
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Just keep in mind that at least half of stories about North Korea turns out to be fake rumors. It’s extremely hard to get reliable information from such a closed society.
Should he die its speculated his sister will take over, possibly as a figurehead for generals working in the background.
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I think there was speculation that it would be Kim Yo-jong
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Thats what I was reading too.
And apparently she’s been primed as the succession plan for a bit. By all accounts, she’s almost worse than her brother.
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I corrected this to a google translate version of the source article.
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We’ll see how this goes down with Trump, who is an absolute fucking woman-hater.
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At least he’s practicing social distancing. I heard if you use a 2 meter phone cord you won’t catch the corona from the person you’re talking to.
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Roger that! Thanks!
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Google translate…
But the “bomb testimony” came in. Chairman Kim Jong-un is said to have been “humanized as a plant” after undergoing surgery.
I get the point… it still sounds funny, tho.
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And come time for the funeral, we’re going to have millions of people packed shoulder-to-sobbing shoulder. COVID-19 will do very well.
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Well , it’s either the virus you don’t see or the machine gun you do.
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I guess it’s too much to hope for that a despotic nation would run out of monstrous assholes to lead the country.
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When the grift is this good, yeah, I’m afraid it is.
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That’s the trouble with basing international relations on personal ones – one little blood clot and it can take years to get back to where you were. And then another blood clot, or bullet,or …
For what it may be worth, a massive MI in someone 36 or 37 years old in the USA (obese or not) would be suspicious. Especially now, with COVID producing a big surge in them. That’s just an example, though, because NK under Kim’s inspired leadership has managed to avoid having any COVID in their country.
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Have they tried bleach?
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