Kim Jong ll suffering from pancreatic cancer

AFTER months of speculation about his ongoing health, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is now reportedly to be suffering from pancreatic cancer.

Seoul's news channel network YTN television reported on Monday that Kim, 67, was diagnosed with the cancer around the time he was felled by a stroke last summer.


The report cited unidentified intelligence officials in South Korea and China.


Comments from South Korea's spy agency were not immediately available.


Kim's health is a focus of intense media speculation due to concerns about instability and a power struggle if he were to die without naming a successor.


His third and youngest son, Kim Jong Un, has widely been reported as being groomed as heir, but the regime has made no announcement to the outside world.