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Kim Jong-nam leaves a hospital in Paris last week in this Fuji TV video footage. /Yonhap
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Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, in Paris last week met with a neurosurgeon who then left for Pyongyang, Japan's Fuji Television reported Monday.
FNN showed footage of a man presumed to be Kim Jong-nam entering the neurosurgery ward of a Paris hospital and leaving the hospital about two hours later. FNN also showed footage of journalists asking Kim about his father's disease and condition, and Kim keeping silent.
Two days later, the French doctor who was presumed to have spoken with Kim Jong-nam went to Charles de Gaulle International Airport in a sedan belonging to the North Korean mission to UNESCO in Paris, the channel said. Asked if he was leaving to treat Kim Jong-il, the French doctor said, "I'm going to Beijing."
But the doctor did not say no when asked whether he was traveling to Pyongyang. If the report is true, it would suggest that Kim Jong-nam is taking charge of his father's health, which would be interesting with regard to speculation about the succession.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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