[軍事一瞥]金正日被證實患“胰腺癌”

金正日被證實患“胰腺癌”

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來源：Jane's（簡氏週刊） 編輯：Vicki

與上週一家日本新聞社報道的消息類似，韓國電視節目今晨爆出朝鮮領導人金正日確實已經患“胰腺癌”，並稱其現在行動不便，腿腳衰弱。雖然金正日仍控制着這個國家大權，但無疑這位領導人已經成爲各大新聞的頭條，而至於其支持的改革方案目前苦難重重。

Kim Jong Il 'has pancreatic cancer'

North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong Il, is suffering from cancer of the pancreas（胰腺癌） and is in danger of dying of the disease, South Korean television reported this morning, the latest and most specific in a series of reports on the dictator’s health.

The information, which was attributed by Yonhap Television News to unidentified Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources, is consistent with a report in a Japanese newspaper over the weekend that Mr Kim has a “serious pancreatic disorder”, and with television images from North Korea last week, in which he appeared haggard, emaciated （衰弱）and slow on his feet.

Mr Kim disappeared from public view for three months last year after what intelligence agencies assume was a stroke last August. Since then, judging from television footage of him, his health has declined.

The South Korean intelligence agency has reported signs that Mr Kim is paving the way for his youngest son, Kim Jong Un to succeed him; unconfirmed reports have even had the 25-year-old visiting Beijing to get to know officials of the closest thing North Korea has to an ally – China.

All year, Pyongyang has staged a series of verbal and physical provocations, including the launch of an intercontinental rocket and an underground nuclear test, which suggest that it has abandoned expectations of negotiation with the international community in favour of whipping up nationalist fervour at home.

There are no obvious signs that Kim Jong Il is in anything less than complete control, but close examination of recent internal developments leads many Pyongyang-watchers to the conclusion that he is leaning towards military hardliners, and away from the more reform-oriented advisers whom he favoured in the middle of the present decade.

Keke View：金正日是目前朝鮮民主主義人民共和國的最高領導人。
　　金正日現任朝鮮勞動黨中央委員會總書記、中央軍事委員會委員長，朝鮮民主主義人民共和國國防委員會委員長、朝鮮人民軍最高司令官。
　　金正日的父親是已故的朝鮮領導人金日成，母親是金正淑。