Stories are starting to circulate on the net that the Kim Jong-Il that met with Bill Clinton earlier this year was a fake. Sources freely admit they are short on facts, but in the same breath point out that North Korea has long been a source of outlandish rumor. And they got more outlandish than ever after Kim suffered a stroke in August 2008-- the diminutive leader was variously said to be close to death, about to be toppled by a coup, or desperately fixing the succession for his youngest son. Stories that his public appearances since recovering from the stroke were being by doubles have been rife.The mainstay of the Kim-is-fake cottage industry is a Japanese university professor called Toshimitsu Shigemura, who once claimed that the real Mr Kim died in 2003, and that everything since has been make-believe. One Mr Kim, he maintains, even flatly confessed to a Japanese visitor, "I am a double." More details here.
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