Kim Jong-Il reported to be sick with pancreatic cancer

kimjongil.jpg Dear Leader, our close if crazy friend over on the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, apparently is dying of pancreatic cancer, according to Korean news source Yonhap Television News. The information was attributed to unidentified Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources, and was backed up by a report by a Japanese paper that Kim Jong-Il had a "serious pancreatic disorder." So what will North Korea do if their one God-like leader falls? It seems that Kim may be paving the way for his youngest son, 25-year-old Kim Jong Un to succeed him. The Times UK said that Jong Un had been in Beijing this past week meeting the leaders of the only country still willing (and perhaps not for long) to call the DPRK its ally.

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