Kim Jong-II may have suffered stroke: US
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has apparently suffered a health setback, “possibly a stroke,” a US intelligence official said on Tuesday, noting that he had not appeared at a 60th anniversary parade.
“It does appear that Kim Jong-Il has had a health setback, possibly a stroke,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The official said Kim appears to have fallen ill in “the last couple of weeks.”
Kim failed to appear at a massive military parade in Pyongyang on Tuesday which marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state.
But there were no outward signs of a struggle to succeed him, the official said. US intelligence was “pretty confident” of its assessment of a health setback, the official said, saying a stroke “possibly is what it looks like now.”