10/21/2006

Somebody just needs to get in touch with their feminine side

N. Korea leader has diabetes, may make nuke attack on Japan: Nakagawa
Kyodo News, Friday October 20, 8:48 PM; TOKYO—- North Korea’s leader could make a nuclear attack on Japan because he suffers from diabetes, ruling Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Shoichi Nakagawa said Friday. “One does not do such a thing normally. But because that country’s leader has overeaten luxurious food and suffers from diabetes, he could think about it,” he said in a speech in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, referring to the possibility of North Korea using a nuclear weapon against Japan…more...

The first thing I thought was, “WTF!? Diabetes causes nuke attacks?” All that “Dearest Leader,” Kim Jong-Il, really just needs to get in touch with his feminine side. Generally speaking, I thought that all that diabetes could do mental health-wise is to contribute to depession.

There are plenty of studies that suggest that diabetes doubles the risk of depression. It turns out that Japan policy chief Shoichi Nakagawa is not being glib about a nuclear attack on Japan because Kim Jong-Il suffers from diabetes—the rest-of-the-story on diabetes is not that simple. Psychologically, anger symptoms seem to be common for people with diabetes but it has, “received much less attention in the literature and studies addressing anger have relied on qualitative designs.” Of course, whether or not Kim Jong-Il does have diabetes is only speculation and is whether any of his possible anger is diabetes related. Hmmm, that’s a speculation about speculations of a medically unproven theory.