Under Kim Jong-il's dictatorial leadership, school leavers are compelled to join the army for 13 years. 'You leave at the age of 30,' writes North Korean 'escape', Hyok Kang Photo: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/ WpN N.Korea's Kim Jong-Il Picks Successor: Reports -- AFP
SEOUL (AFP) — North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong-Il has named his youngest son Jong-Un, a 26-year-old Swiss-educated basketball fan, as heir to his communist dynasty, reports said Tuesday.
Kim's third son has been described as a "chip off the old block" and is seen by experts as a potentially skilled and ruthless leader, like his father, who has kept his regime in place despite years of famine and economic decline.
There has been intense speculation about who would succeed North Korea's "Dear Leader" since he was reported to have suffered a stroke last August. Kim, now 67, is thought to have since recovered and resumed most of his duties.
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