Post: #1

Nevermind, Hoax. April Fool's.

Should this go in politics thread? Not sure if this is a hoax yet, still digging:
North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un Dead After Apparent Suicide Attack

Quote: A report filed by North Korean state media earlier today announced that Kim Jong-un, chairman of the Worker’s Party of Korea and supreme leader of the DPRK, was killed in an explosion in Pyongyang which was believed to have been carried out by a female suicide bomber. Few details have been confirmed by North Korea’s state-owned media outlets, and the lack of foreign journalists based in Pyongyang makes corroborating the story hard. However, at this point the following facts have been revealed by KCTV (조선중앙텔레비죤):

The attack on Kim Jong-un was carried out at around 14:00 local time in the Potonggang District of Pyongyang. Mr Kim was attending the commemoration of a new state built on the banks of the Potong River when a female spectator burst past security barricades and sprinted in his direction. Mr Kim’s bodyguards drew their weapons, but before they had a chance to fire upon the female, she detonated a device which is believed to be a suicide belt. The ensuing blast seriously wounded Mr Kim, and despite being rushed to a nearby hospital he was pronounced dead on arrival. State media has been completely silent on the topic of who among the DPRK’s remaining leadership may succeed Mr Kim, who held the post of supreme leader after his father, Kim Jong-il, passed away in late 2011. There exists a power vacuum among North Korea’s elite, with the younger Kim conducting a series of purges aimed at consolidating his power in recent times. Foreign media outlets have speculated that Kim’s sister, Ms Kim Yo-jung, who currently holds the position of deputy director of the Korean Worker’s Party, is a leading candidate. “Some analysts claim that during Kim Jong-Un’s lengthy absence from the public eye in 2014, that she may have been running the country.”

The identity of the female suicide bomber remains a mystery, and few details have emerged that shed any light on her identity. Witnesses to the blast were interviewed on Korean state media but were mostly too consumed by grief to share any useful information. One exception was a younger North Korean man who was interviewed, who reported that the female bomber was ‘exceptionally beautiful’. “She had half the men in the crowd watching her,” he commented, before his interview was abruptly terminated by KCTV.

Post: #2

No shit?

Well, this is going to be interesting.

Post: #3

What a very interesting couple of days.

Orlando, London, and now North Korea. What's next?

Post: #4

Looks like that final "Interview" was his last.

Post: #5

Always wait at least 72 hours to determine news veracity.

Post: #6

Yeah, I can't find anything else yet, and it's only been 2 hours since that article.
If anything the suicide attack itself would have been reported, happening before his 'death' at the hospital.

edit; this is probably (edit again: NOT) a hoax. I think there was a similar hoax in April about his death. The website looks pretty legit though, I'll see what I can sous out.
edit; looking more through the website, all the other articles are fairly tame, regular news, nothing sensationalist to tip me off that this one article is false.....

Post: #7

No I've got an excuse to watch the news.

Post: #8

My tin foil hat is on:

Kim Jong-un is killed.
Internal power struggles.
Instability and chaos.
War.
Martial law.
U.S. election suspended.

And my tin foil hat is off again.

Post: #9

99% this is bullshit, especially since their preceding article states : "China Announces Plan To Hand Hong Kong Back to Britain By End-2016".

Post: #10

(06-16-2016 02:29 PM)LINUX Wrote:  99% this is bullshit, especially since their preceding article states : "China Announces Plan To Hand Hong Kong Back to Britain By End-2016".

looks Onion'y

"China Adopts Controversial ‘Alternate Breathing Days’ To Curb Pollution"

Post: #11

That website got busted for making a fake news article that China banned marriages to foreigners for the women but not the men, earlier this week or last week. I only know that because someone brought it to my attention and when I dug around, I found it to be BS. I think I read somewhere that the site does satire or something like that.

Post: #12

East Asia Tribune is a fake news site

Post: #13

Argh, fuckin fooled.

Post: #14

Yeah looks like a fake news site

Post: #15

Aprils fools?

Nigga, it's June.

Post: #16

I leave Korea in two weeks.. If this was true..I would stay longer just to see the military firework show.