Sunday, December 25, 2011

The Makeup Of Pyongyang's New Inner Power Circle

Kim Jong Un, center, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest known son and successor, visits at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang on December 24, 2011, North Korea, to pay respect to his father. At far left front is Jong Un's uncle Jang Song Thaek. Credit: AP Photo

Experts Speculate On Makeup Of Pyongyang's New Inner Power Circle -- L.A. Times

REPORTING FROM SEOUL -- Pyongyang's seat of power is the Kremlin of the post Cold War era. Its often mischievous doings conducted behind closed doors, leaving the outside world to mere guess and conjecture.

That’s no small feat in a time of drones, satellites spying, sophisticated surveillance and with the planet’s most wired nation, South Korea, sitting right at its doorstep.

In the aftermath of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s death, regime-watchers are left to grasp at clues about the machinations of change as Kim’s hand-picked successor and youngest son, Kim Jong Un, shores up his support among the military and begins the Kim family’s third generation of power.

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My Comment: For now .... the old men are going to run North Korea .... later .... it may Kim Jong Un .... it may be someone else.

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