N Korean leader Kim has pancreatic cancer: YTN

Monday 13th July, 12:25 PM JST

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Sarge at 04:17 PM JST - 13th July

A man who routinely shoots 3 or 4 holes-in-ones on golf outings can surely beat pancreatic cancer.
Farmboy at 05:15 PM JST - 13th July

The 67-year-old Kim was diagnosed with the cancer around the time he was felled by a stroke last summer, Seoul’s YTN television reported, citing unidentified intelligence officials in South Korea and China.

And how would they know?
gogogo at 06:09 PM JST - 13th July

Offer the guy a treatment to treat and possibly cure the cancer and see how NK responds.
dbuurman at 07:28 PM JST - 13th July

Five years; I think you meant to report 5 months at best. This cancer is the worst with a very poor prognosis.
Kwaabish at 07:34 PM JST - 13th July

Kimmie's doctors should consider his illness as a declaratin of war and mercilessly strike a thousand-fold destruction to his cancer cells.
timeon at 08:00 PM JST - 13th July

and I always thought he has brain cancer
smithinjapan at 08:37 PM JST - 13th July

Kwaabish: good one.

Sounds like karma to me, and if they're right about this then it seems for a change US intelligence is bang on (they predicted a week ago or so that Kim has less than a year).

I'm only surprised he isn't having doctors organ harvest from young NKoreans (give the family a bit of money/food for a child)... or maybe that's why he's lasted as long as he has. Sick, but wouldn't surprise me.
Tosaken at 08:45 PM JST - 13th July

“Would he be able to carry out such brisk activity while having pancreatic cancer?” Yang said.”

I wonder if the dear leader is still using a double & if so did they starve the poor man to get him to look something like the original Kim Jong Il? I doubt that he has pancreatic cancer, though I care little if he has, but I also doubt that he has that long left. However, it might not be wise to make too quick a judgement on the son just yet, he has lived outside NK but also knows his way around that weird & wonderful place. He might not turn out to be what he seems today. Remember how things looked just before Franco died, King Juan Carlos looked like he was going to keep the old show running, but then didn’t. When the cats away the mice will play, but what happens when the cat dies? The next twelve months could be interesting, maybe not much fun, but interesting.
Madverts at 09:19 PM JST - 13th July

Spain 'aint NK....

...Dear Leader II is already on standy-by.
Weasel at 10:36 PM JST - 13th July

The stock prices for JAS Hennessy Cognac will surely suffer upon news of this.
usaexpat at 11:38 PM JST - 13th July

NK is such a closed society that no one acan be truly sure what is going on with the "Dear Leader's" health. We are all just guessing folks.
goodDonkey at 12:37 AM JST - 14th July

Kim is truly living on borrowed time. Unfortunately he could be more dangerous now than ever before. Let's just hope this psychopath does not choose to go out in a bang.

What a horrible man. I hope Japan and S. Korea will be safe until he is gone.
OssanAmerica at 12:37 AM JST - 14th July

Good thing Jong Il's on his way out. Let's hope the new young Kim has learned something in his expensive studies overseas, like how his country sucks and is the laughing stock of the whole world, and that he might be able to to turn that around. If so, hope he has most, if not all of those glistening medals from neck to crotch DPRKLA Generals on his side.
OssanAmerica at 03:21 AM JST - 14th July

In the next 20 years the U.S. will diminish in economic size relative to >China,

This is the view held during the last 5 years or so until the global crash in November of 2008. China, with an economy still based on exports, now to nations in economic recession is highly vulnerable to such a slump. What they have been doing since November is "forcing" economic growth through a strategic buildup of raw materials. In other words, today, there is really no certainty at all in the notion that China will surpass the US economically in our lifetime, and when you take their political problems into account, almost no chance of replacing the U.S. as a strategically dominant power in the region. And it is this very same political aspect which does not permit Japan to ally itself with China rather than the U.S. That said, there is no doubt that Japan needs to rewrite her constitution and become a "normal" country at least in the military sense to ensure peace, not from the big players, but from the small rogue nations like NKorea.
Farmboy at 07:04 AM JST - 14th July

... there is no doubt that Japan needs to rewrite her constitution and become a "normal" country at least in the military sense to ensure peace, not from the big players, but from the small rogue nations like NKorea.

Japan is helpless against North Korean missiles...that's pretty much true,though I would argue that considering that Japan is so close to NK, a strong military would not necessarily change this. A few missiles would get through no matter what.

Also,there is plenty of doubt about changing the constitution, I think, considering that there is a history of a Japanese military that does not consider the will of the people, and certainly not the will of its neighbors. Many of the elements that made up that military in the past are still alive and well, and may be resurfacing in this environment.

True, I would want less US involvement in Japan's defense if I were Japanese, but an uncontrolled Japanese military is something that needs to be guarded against as well. In my opinion, it would be good if the US were more careful in its prodding for Japan's military independence. The Japanese people, at least the older ones, already understand these risks, but the US seems to have forgotten.