Gout? GOUT?!?

North Korea officially acknowledges that Kim Jong Un isn’t feeling very well, report says

In July, North Korean state television showed a video of Kim appearing to limp during a ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of his grandfather, former North Korean leader Kim Il Sung. The unusual footage prompted many to speculate about Kim’s health.

That speculation only increased in recent days; although Kim is usually a fixture of North Korean state media, his most recent public appearance was on Sept. 3, when he attended a concert with his wife.

Although the report did not elaborate on the nature of Kim’s “discomfort,” South Korean media and other North Korea watchers are full of ideas of what might be wrong with the dictator.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, for instance, reported that the North Korean leader could be suffering from gout, based on the limp, citing an unnamed source and the history of gout in Kim’s family.

Suffering with gout for three months? Jeebus. Don’t you idiots have access to indomethacin or colchizine or prednisone? With a few doses of one of those his gout should be gone.

I’ve had a half-dozen bouts of gout. I wouldn’t wish that pain on my worst enemy. Can I be busted for trading with the enemy if I send the Dear Leader 10 or 20 50mg doses of indocin?