PARIS (AP) â€" A French neurosurgeon reliable Monday that Kim Jong Il had a debilitating cadence in 2008, and described personally treating a reserved tyrant while a North Korean open and universe remained unknowingly of his condition.
Dr. Francois-Xavier Roux â€" vocalization to The Associated Press on Monday â€" described Kim's concerns for his future, a plea of operative underneath consistent surveillance, and Korean doctors' fears of creation final decisions about how to save their autarchic leader.
North Korean state media announced Monday that Kim had died Saturday during age 69.
Roux, a arch of neurosurgery during Sainte Anne Hospital in Paris, pronounced he was urgently flown to North Korea in Aug 2008 to inspect Kim who was comatose and "in a bad way" and in complete caring during Pyongyang's Red Cross Hospital, in a comrade nation's capital.
The two-month outing and medical examination gave Roux forlorn entrance for a Westerner to a North Korean regime and an insinuate perspective of a enigmatic, enervated chief.
North Korean officials initial contacted Roux by phone in 1993 after Kim suffered a "small conduct damage following a horse-riding accident," a alloy said, adding that he never accepted since they had sought him out.
And then, 3 years ago, North Korea contacted Roux again after Kim suffered a cadence â€" never rigourously concurred by authorities. This time officials organised for a alloy to come to Pyongyang with a few other French doctors.
"When they came to get me in 2008, we didn't know who we was withdrawal to go see over there," pronounced Roux. "They don't contend â€" they're really secret."
Roux pronounced he was brought immediately to a hospital, handed medical files of unknown patients, and asked to give a diagnosis and diagnosis recommendation for each. Most were not in vicious trouble, though one record uneasy him. He insisted on saying a studious in person.
After a few hours of consultation, a internal medical group consented. The patient, Roux said, was Kim Jong Il.
"When we arrived, he was in complete care, in a coma, in a bad way," Roux said.
"My pursuit was to try and save him from this vicious state by articulate with a other doctors, by giving medical advice, etc. He was in a life-threatening situation," Roux said.
Citing doctor-patient payoff and state secrecy, Roux declined to contend how he had examined Kim, or prove what diagnosis he had recommended.
He pronounced that by a time he returned to France about 10 days later, Kim was unwavering and speaking. Roux pronounced he saw Kim again in Sep and Oct for follow-up visits orderly during a authorities' behest.
Roux pronounced that as Kim began to benefit recognition of his condition, he became really endangered "as any of us would have been after a vicious stroke." Kim wanted to know if he would live routinely again, "if he would travel routinely again, work normally. He was seeking really judicious questions."
He pronounced Kim had mislaid a small weight, though suffered few durability effects. However, a possibility of destiny strokes increasing over time.
Roux pronounced a North Korean authorities seemed to have sought a unfamiliar alloy since they indispensable someone who was "not emotionally involved."
"My Korean colleagues were ... uneasy to be creation decisions for their leader," he said, adding that while internal doctors took partial in Kim's caring final diagnosis decisions were left to him.
He described vocalization a brew of French and English with a other doctors, and pronounced that Kim seemed to be "profoundly Francophile."
"He wanted to settle domestic ties with France. He was not stealing that," pronounced Roux. "He also knew French cinema really well. we was flattering surprised. He knew French wines flattering well. We were articulate about a differences between Bourgogne and Bordeaux, etc."
Roux pronounced usually tighten family knew Kim was sick, though a summary "didn't get upheld to a public." The late leader's 20-something son Kim Jong Un was a unchanging caller to his father's bedside, he said, though a successor apparent never spoke to him.
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Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.
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