Insert "Il/Ill" Pun Here

Apparently, Kim Jong Il has been dead all along:

He doesn't appear in public very often so it's difficult to verify but there are allegations today that North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il has in fact been dead for five years.

A Japanese expert on North Korea is claiming that the role of the "Dear Leader" has instead been played by a group of doubles since 2003, when he says the President died of diabetes.

More likely:

WASHINGTON (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has apparently suffered a health setback, "possibly a stroke," a US intelligence official said Tuesday.

"It does appear that Kim Jong-Il has had a health setback, possibly a stroke," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The official said it appeared to have happened in "the last couple of weeks."

"Dead" makes him even more scary, right?

Meanwhile:

MOSCOW, September 9 (Itar-Tass) - President Dmitry Medvedev has congratulated Chairman of the State Defence Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong-il on the sixtieth anniversary of the proclamation of DPRK, the Kremlin Press Service reports.

“A new sovereign state, geographically and historically closely linked with our country, was formed on the land of Korea on September 9, 1948,” the congratulation message notes. “We have accumulated a wealth of positive experience in our interaction and in the implementation of numerous joint projects for the weal of our peoples during the period that has elapsed since that memorable date,” it adds.

“I am sure that the traditionally good-neighbour relations between our two countries will go on gaining strength and developing, thereby notably contributing to peace, stability and security on the Korean Peninsula and in Asia as a whole”, the congratulation says.