[军事一瞥]金正日被证实患“胰腺癌”

金正日被证实患“胰腺癌”

来源：Jane's（简氏周刊） 编辑：Vicki

与上周一家日本新闻社报道的消息类似，韩国电视节目今晨爆出朝鲜领导人金正日确实已经患“胰腺癌”，并称其现在行动不便，腿脚衰弱。虽然金正日仍控制着这个国家大权，但无疑这位领导人已经成为各大新闻的头条，而至于其支持的改革方案目前苦难重重。

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：金正日是目前朝鲜民主主义人民共和国的最高领导人。
　　金正日现任朝鲜劳动党中央委员会总书记、中央军事委员会委员长，朝鲜民主主义人民共和国国防委员会委员长、朝鲜人民军最高司令官。
　　金正日的父亲是已故的朝鲜领导人金日成，母亲是金正淑。