That sounds awkward.
Did they run out of windows? Or did the window overlook the pond?
The funny thing is that this probably was actually an accident, but is Kim Jong Un going to believe that?
I don’t know that I buy ‘just an accident’.
I’m not stupid enough to think that it was necessarily Russia, though. But seriously, how many people die randomly swimming. Particularly when they probably have some security standing on their every move?
Ask yourself how many North Koreans learn to swim well. This might be something he didn’t get a lot of experience with before leaving his homeland.
Are you saying Asians can’t swim or something? I don’t know what is you mean.
Swimming is often a recreational activity, North Koreans aren’t well known for their luxuries such as recreation.
I suspect in school they learnt how to worship eternal ruler and his family instead of swimming lessons as well.
So not too many opportunities for a nork to swim.
I imagine somebody well connected enough to be an envoy doesn’t share in the living conditions of the average citizen
I don’t know much about North Korea geography (rivers, lakes) but where I am originally from, swimming was something boys learned when playing as children. It didn’t cost anything, you were just using local lake. So this assertion is bullshit, unless this is a cultural thing about North Korea.
This is North Korea you’re talking about.
Your anecdotal evidence is irrelevant when talking about NK.
Do you know anything about North Korea? Stop trying to find racism in every comment.
I’m getting married to a person born in China and have been enveloped in Asian culture a lot more than most people in Western culture ever will. Trying to paint things with such a broad stroke shows your ignorance about regional issues and the utter smothering existence living under the North Korean regime is.
A group of people oppressed to such a degree does not leave much time for simple pleasures like learning to fucking swim and enjoying life.
But yeah sure, let’s be ignorant as fuck… all Asians… yeah that’s clearly what I meant.
I may have woken up on the wrong side of the bed. If I took your comment out of context and you were not implying racism, but were simply confused, then I do humbly apologize for this rant.
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It’s quite possible that he had taken the opportunity of being in a country with easier access to alcohol and drugs to go on a bender and ended up drowned. Remember Yeltsin standing outside the white house in his underwear pissed out of his gourd trying to hail a taxi to get pizza?
Pretty sure that was before my time.
I don’t suppose you have a video? Asking for a friend…
Though, again, their security detail is total shit if they let a drunken slob get that pissed and drown.
Delegations going abroad don’t get to go without an escort. especially from countries where the risk of defection is insanely high.
It happened in the late 90’s, but wasn’t revealed until about 2008 or 2009 (a year or two after Boris Yeltsin died). No, there is no video, at least none any of us would have access to.
He was the President at the time.
I remember a few years ago, Russia had an unseasonably warm summer and a rash of drownings because they got drunk and couldn’t swim.
Found it: https://abcnews.go.com/International/russia-heat-wave-vodka-deadly-mix-drowning/story?id=11170454
A lot of people die randomly swimming. Just last week someone drowned in the river near me, and a few months back, there was a drowning in a lake. Both involved alcohol.
I just don’t see why drown the NK envoy.
I mean yes random people drown a lot, but it’s also how the CIA (allegedly) assassinated the PM of Australia during the 60s, after he was insufficiently supportive of the Vietnam War.
Probably wanted that guy gone anyway. Why waste space on a plane for someone who can eat all your delicious
dirtdefinitely edible food.Why waste space on an armoured train moar liek.
When you think about it, isn’t a pool just a very large window?
Sounds like the sanctions are working.
He didn’t fall out of a window? That’s a change.
Maybe the pond was below his window.
Must have been the new hire who did it, they forgot to read the instructions.
The window guy had a packed schedule.
Not the first time a politician was found in a pond in Moscow. ofc yeltsin was just drunk and fell into a lake, again. Not that he didn’t hold it against the soviet for pointing this out.
Drowned out of his 11th story window.
And these are the people republicans think are “not so bad”
Remember that when it’s your family randomly dying by “some freak accident “
Putin stated he preferred Biden.
Netanyahu stated he prefers Trump.
Flip it around and find the truth.
Remind me which country was it that was running election interference for trump?
Of those two it’s not the country that has a lobby which spent far more on lobbying for Biden than for Trump.
Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every word.
Every statement made by a conservative should be disregarded as a statement made in bad faith.
Putin stated he preferred Biden.
US intelligence assessments found Russia tried to influence campaigns to help Trump win in 2016, and again in failed 2020 race against Joe Biden.
you better believe we have plenty of proof it’s also happening right fucking now, oh but that doesn’t matter cuz pOoTiN sAiD hE wAnTeD bIdEn!!! Yes he prefers the man that wants nothing to do with him instead of the man that wants everything to do with him to the point of destroying NATO and handing over ukraine. He’s been spending resources on helping Trump for years now but definitely wants Biden to win, yep.
Fucking unbelievable how foolish people are. It’s a wonder you manage to even draw breath.
You clearly did not even try to understand my comment.
It is a reference to which foreign Fascist supports which party and how their statements are the opposite of what they say out loud.
US election 2024: Putin says he prefers Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the White House
Democrats appear are fully convinced that Netanyahu favors Trump over Biden. But they ignore the fact that israel supported Bidens campaign far more than Trumps campaign.
Reminds me of that scene in Barry where the Chechens bring in this super assasin. They pine over him and his prowess then he just shoots himself. They bring in a Norrh Korean Military expert to deepen ties and he accidently drowns…
Guess he didn’t swallow!
So is the honeymoon over?
Drowned in bath tub while he was kneeled washing his face.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The head of an elite North Korean military delegation that was deployed to Russia last week has been found dead in Moscow, according to local reports.
Newsweek couldn’t independently verify the reports and has contacted Russia’s Foreign Ministry for comment by email.
Kim and his delegation departed from Pyongyang on July 8, the news agency Yonhap said, on the first public visit by North Korean officials to Russia since Pyongyang and Moscow signed a new strategic partnership agreement in June.
According to SHOT, as a heat wave swept Russia, Kim, 64, went to the Bolshoy Gorodskoy Pond in Moscow for a swim to cool off, and “disappeared.”
North Korea and Russia have deepened their ties since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022.
Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency said in June that Article 4 of the new agreement reached between Russia and North Korea during Putin’s historic visit requires either party to deploy “all means at its disposal without delay” to provide “military and other assistance” should one nation be attacked.
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