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North Korea's Kim Jong Il had brain surgery after a stroke last month and could have partial paralysis (局部癱瘓) on one side, media reports said yesterday, after the South Korean government said the communist leader remained in control of his country.
Foreign doctors, possibly from China and France, performed the operation after Kim, 66, collapsed about Aug. 15, the newspapers Dong-a Ilbo and JoongAng Ilbo reported, citing unidentified government officials.
Kim's condition has improved and he is not suffering from slurred speech, a disability often associated with a stroke, the reports said.
If Kim were incapacitated (失去能力), it could have serious implications for international negotiations on North Korea's nuclear disarmament. The talks recently hit a snag because of a dispute between North Korea and the US over how to verify the North's nuclear programmes, and a delay by Washington in its promised removal of North Korea from a list of nations that sponsor terrorism.
Lee Cheol-woo, a South Korean ruling party lawmaker, said in a radio interview yesterday Kim was "recovering fast," has "no problem speaking and communicating," and is "able to stand if assisted." The lawmaker, a leader of the parliamentary intelligence committee briefed by the country's spy agency on Wednesday, did not give further details.
However, South Korea's largest newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, said the stroke had left Kim with "partial paralysis." It quoted an unidentified senior government official as saying, "I understand that he is suffering inconvenience on the left part of his body."
South Korea's main spy agency declined to comment on the reports, only repeating a previous statement that Kim's condition had much improved from an unspecified circulatory problem. It also declined to say whether Kim received surgery.