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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 157 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That sounds awkward.

Did they run out of windows? Or did the window overlook the pond?

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 69 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The funny thing is that this probably was actually an accident, but is Kim Jong Un going to believe that?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I don't know that I buy 'just an accident'.

I'm not stupid enough to think that it was necessarily Russia, though. But seriously, how many people die randomly swimming. Particularly when they probably have some security standing on their every move?

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Ask yourself how many North Koreans learn to swim well. This might be something he didn't get a lot of experience with before leaving his homeland.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Ask yourself how many North Koreans learn to swim well.

The ones who don’t live there anymore?

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[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 18 points 3 months ago (7 children)

It's quite possible that he had taken the opportunity of being in a country with easier access to alcohol and drugs to go on a bender and ended up drowned. Remember Yeltsin standing outside the white house in his underwear pissed out of his gourd trying to hail a taxi to get pizza?

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Standing outside in your underwear drunk while hailing a taxi to get pizza sounds like a super American thing to do. He was really going for the true American experience!

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

A lot of people die randomly swimming. Just last week someone drowned in the river near me, and a few months back, there was a drowning in a lake. Both involved alcohol.

I just don't see why drown the NK envoy.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

My present speculation, if it wasn’t an accident, was that he was trying to defect/escape NK.

Russia isn’t the only place to use political executions.

Alternatively, it could have been a western state- Ukraine features high (if they have the capability?) specifically to impose some strain on relations.

We’ll prolly never know what really happened.

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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably wanted that guy gone anyway. Why waste space on a plane for someone who can eat all your delicious ~~dirt~~ definitely edible food.

[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Why waste space on an armoured train moar liek.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 15 points 3 months ago

When you think about it, isn't a pool just a very large window?

[–] resetbypeer@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Sounds like the sanctions are working.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 107 points 3 months ago (4 children)

He didn't fall out of a window? That's a change.

[–] Maultasche@feddit.de 31 points 3 months ago

Maybe the pond was below his window.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago

Must have been the new hire who did it, they forgot to read the instructions.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 15 points 3 months ago

The window guy had a packed schedule.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago

Didn't like the taste of the polonium tea so they had to improvise.

[–] JPSound@lemmy.world 79 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Drowned out of his 11th story window.

[–] CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I spit on my phone when abruptly laughed at this.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 51 points 3 months ago

Not the first time a politician was found in a pond in Moscow. ofc yeltsin was just drunk and fell into a lake, again. Not that he didn't hold it against the soviet for pointing this out.

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 40 points 3 months ago (16 children)

And these are the people republicans think are “not so bad”

Remember that when it’s your family randomly dying by “some freak accident “

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[–] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

Putin is double crossing the North Koreans? lmfao with friends like that who needs enemies?

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Drowned in bath tub while he was kneeled washing his face.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

He was also trying the "high velocity lead shampoo".

[–] OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reminds me of that scene in Barry where the Chechens bring in this super assasin. They pine over him and his prowess then he just shoots himself. They bring in a Norrh Korean Military expert to deepen ties and he accidently drowns...

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Guess he didn’t swallow!

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

WW3 between... Russia and North Korea, with... uhh... allies? It's weird because both China and USA would want to get involved, but neither would know on which side. Imagine USA allying with China to help North Korea fight Russia by mistake. That would be embarrassing.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

So is the honeymoon over?

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

The envoy had probably never seen clean water before and wanted a closer look.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 3 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The head of an elite North Korean military delegation that was deployed to Russia last week has been found dead in Moscow, according to local reports.

Newsweek couldn't independently verify the reports and has contacted Russia's Foreign Ministry for comment by email.

Kim and his delegation departed from Pyongyang on July 8, the news agency Yonhap said, on the first public visit by North Korean officials to Russia since Pyongyang and Moscow signed a new strategic partnership agreement in June.

According to SHOT, as a heat wave swept Russia, Kim, 64, went to the Bolshoy Gorodskoy Pond in Moscow for a swim to cool off, and "disappeared."

North Korea and Russia have deepened their ties since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022.

Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said in June that Article 4 of the new agreement reached between Russia and North Korea during Putin's historic visit requires either party to deploy "all means at its disposal without delay" to provide "military and other assistance" should one nation be attacked.


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[–] Sorgan71@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

WORLDSTAR WORLDSTAR

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

if he was hot he should have just opened a window...oh...oh wait...

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