'Fake photo' revives Kim rumours

[meegbear]

Source: BBC

There is fresh speculation about the health of North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il, amid suggestions that an image of Mr Kim may have been doctored.

The image, released on Wednesday, appeared to show Mr Kim in good health while inspecting two military units.

But an analysis by the UK's Times newspaper highlighted incongruities around the leader's legs, and the BBC found what look like mismatched pixels.

It has given new life to suggestions Mr Kim may be seriously unwell.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7715458.stm

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[tekisui]

1. He reportedly had some kind of brain surgery

after a stroke. That came from SK press.

He is probably nearly dead. Who takes his place?

[meegbear]

2. Dunno ...

I've never heard any other names other than his.

[htuttle]

3. Next would be Mini-Kim, presumably...and I've heard he's even more foul tempered

Seriously, though. The top military staff that has surrounded him all of these years were inherited from his father's reign. I suspect they've been making most of the decisions all along.

[DS1]

4. That new stand-in must be really new

[meegbear]

5. ...

:spray:

Damn iPhone camera, piece of shit.

[mr_hat]

6. Oh Dear!

[Kalifornia.Kid]

7. Kim Jong Joe (the Plumber) surfaces in Korea

[Posteritatis]

8. "Seriously unwell" - that's a tactful way of putting it (nt)

[tclambert]

9. Yeah, the shadow of his leg is really off.

But then, sunshine never did strike Kim at the same angle as the rest of humanity.

[Posteritatis]

16. I thought he emitted his own? His spokesdroids say so! (nt)

[tclambert]

10. But why fake a photo when they could put a double in place?

President Kim, meet Dave . . .

[jennied]

11. Terrible photoshopping

[Gasping4Truth]

12. Another doctored photograph

was discussed lately at shorpy.com:

... the D.L. greeting an assortment of functionaries whose hovering selves levitate shadowlessly over a stone platform.

(On edit: linked to a mirrored version of the pic, because cross-site inlining with shorpy.com did not work out)

[greyl]

13. Plus, there's no shadow between his legs. Fake. nt

[cobalt1999]

14. Some poor N. Korean photoshop peon is now off the the labor camps

He screwed up.

[Duer 157099]

15. I don't buy it

Look at the leg shadow of the guy on the right -- not directly adjacent but the next one over. Seems his leg shadow was "doctored" too. Why?

And the line -- that's such an obvious "oversight" if it were a deliberate attempt to mislead. Again, why? More likely that portion of the barier simply did not have the line on it.

The photo may have been photoshopped, like most are today anyway, but I think he was really standing there at that time.

[Joe Bacon]

17. I didn't realize you were doing a FARK photoshop contest!

:rofl:

[Turbineguy]

18. Trotsky's Elbow

North Korean style.