Kissinger Is Recovering From Stomach Pains in Seoul

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Kissinger Is Recovering From Stomach Pains in Seoul (Update2)

(Hope this criminal Zionist J-F'er dies...the CSR)

By Jungmin Hong

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Henry Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of state, is in stable condition in a South Korean hospital after being admitted with abdominal pains this morning.

The former U.S. secretary of state isn't in danger and is recovering, Choi Kingdegar, a spokesman at Yonsei University's Severance Hospital in western Seoul, said by phone today. Results of his examination weren't available yet, Choi said.

Kissinger, 86, is suffering from a "stomach illness" and being treated for dehydration, Steven P. Pearson of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars said in an interview in Hong Kong. Kissinger had been scheduled to host a dinner for the Center in Hong Kong today, Pearson said.

"It sounded like a 24-hour bug or something he ate," Pearson said. "It's certainly nothing major."

Kissinger still plans to travel to Beijing tomorrow, though he will do so from Seoul, not Hong Kong as originally planned, Pearson said.

Officials at the U.S. embassy in Seoul were not available for comment. Kissinger was in the South Korean capital to deliver a lecture on North Korea's nuclear program, according to the Korea Herald newspaper, which earlier reported his hospitalization.

Kissinger helped orchestrate the opening of relations between China and the U.S. as well as detente and arms-control agreements with the Soviet Union under Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Le Duc Tho for the cease-fire the two negotiated in 1973, leading to the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Vietnam.

The former Harvard University professor also came under fire over his support for policies such as the U.S. bombing of Cambodia and backing of authoritarian regimes in Pakistan, Chile and Indonesia.

To contact the reporter on this story: Jungmin Hong in Seoul at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... W4_Y&pos=9