Kim Jong Il, North Korea's leader, has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, a news report said yesterday, days after fresh images of him looking gaunt spurred speculation that his health was worsening following a reported stroke last year. Mr Kim, 67, was diagnosed at about the time he was felled by the stroke last summer, Seoul's YTN television reported, citing unidentified intelligence officials in South Korea and China who had said the disease was “threatening” Mr Kim's life.
昨日有新聞報導稱,北韓領導人金正日(Kim Jong Il)已患上威脅生命的胰腺癌。就在幾天前,他在最新露面的畫面中看上去有些憔悴,從而引發外界猜測,認爲自去年據報道出現中風以來,他的健康狀況不斷惡化。據首爾的聯合電視新聞臺(YTN)報導,現年67歲的金正日差不多是在去年夏天中風病倒前後,被診斷患上胰腺癌的。該報導援引未透露姓名的南韓和中國情報官員稱,胰腺癌正在「威脅」金正日的生命。