Sack of Chisels
09-08-2008, 11:58 AM
The leader has been thought to be ill for some time but Japanese-North Korean expert Professor Toshimitsu Shigemura is proposing a far worse state.
"Already he has died. A lot of information came from Pyongyang," he told The World Today.
The proof of the North Korean leader's passing is varied and rests on the main claim that Kim Jong-Il is being played by a number of convincing imposters.
The fake Kims are said to be the wrong height and are always shadowed by one of four senior military figures.
"A Japanese TV station checked his voice print four years ago and the result was the voice was different, the former Kim Jong-Il and now Kim Jong-Il, so there are questions," Professor Shigemura said.
Kim Jong-Il's secret death is impossible to verify and other North Korean experts have called the claim silly.
Professor Shigemura is not completely certain himself but has been in contact with unnamed close friends of Kim Jong-Il.
"But they are pretty high, maybe 60 per cent or 70 per cent [sure] it's possible," he said.
"We can trust those persons so we trust, we are trusting this person with the information."
This would mean that the world, including Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao, have been negotiating with an impostor.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/08/2358528.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4692472.ece
http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/north-koreas-kim-died-in-2003-and-was-replaced-by-lookalike-says-waseda-profesor
"Already he has died. A lot of information came from Pyongyang," he told The World Today.
The proof of the North Korean leader's passing is varied and rests on the main claim that Kim Jong-Il is being played by a number of convincing imposters.
The fake Kims are said to be the wrong height and are always shadowed by one of four senior military figures.
"A Japanese TV station checked his voice print four years ago and the result was the voice was different, the former Kim Jong-Il and now Kim Jong-Il, so there are questions," Professor Shigemura said.
Kim Jong-Il's secret death is impossible to verify and other North Korean experts have called the claim silly.
Professor Shigemura is not completely certain himself but has been in contact with unnamed close friends of Kim Jong-Il.
"But they are pretty high, maybe 60 per cent or 70 per cent [sure] it's possible," he said.
"We can trust those persons so we trust, we are trusting this person with the information."
This would mean that the world, including Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao, have been negotiating with an impostor.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/08/2358528.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4692472.ece
http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/north-koreas-kim-died-in-2003-and-was-replaced-by-lookalike-says-waseda-profesor