NK leader`s medical teams got training in Singapore: Kyodo

NK leader`s medical teams got training in Singapore: Kyodo. October. 11, 2011 03:35. jkmas@donga.com.

A medical team believed to be in charge of treating North Korean leader Kim Jong Il secretly received training on rehabilitation treatment for brain disease in Singapore last year, a Japanese media outlet said Monday.

Kyodo News said the doctors were mostly women aged around 30. Singapore’s medical service is among the most advanced in Southeast Asia.

Two North Korean medical teams comprising several medics each stayed at a Singaporean medical institution for about a month and received training in fields such as internal medicine and surgery. Quoting sources, Kyodo said the Singaporean government received the teams per the North`s request.

After Kim, 69, suffered a stroke in August 2008, medical teams from China and France secretly visited North Korea and treated him.