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China-Japan-Koreas
Kim to name successor?
2005-10-05
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il could soon name his successor to head the hard-line communist nation, a Russian news agency reported Tuesday. The ruling Korean Workers' Party celebrates its 60th anniversary on Monday, and an announcement of the North's next leader could be timed around that event, an unidentified diplomatic official in Pyongyang told the ITAR-Tass news agency, which has a correspondent in the North Korean capital.

One option for Kim, 63, is to carry communism's first and only dynasty into the next generation of his family, which founded the Stalinist regime in 1948. Another option is to hand over the government — and its possible nuclear arsenal — to someone outside the family, such as a figure from the hard-line Korea People's Army.
Anybody actually see the lil weasel lately?
The ITAR-Tass source said the decision could be made either at a closed party leadership meeting or a party congress, which would usually be announced a month in advance, ITAR-Tass reported. No plans for such a meeting have yet been made public. Many analysts caution that North Korea is such a reclusive society that any predictions amount to little more than speculation. Kim has three sons and all of them have "approximately equal chances" of inheriting leadership of the reclusive state, according to ITAR-Tass.

In August 2004, Cheong Seong-chang, a North Korea expert at the independent Sejong Institute research center just outside Seoul, claimed Kim was likely within the next few years to anoint his son, Jong Chul, 22, as his successor.
Posted by:Jackal

#11  I'd just like to hear Kim say "successor" lol
Posted by: Frank G   2005-10-05 21:35  

#10  It's ronery at the top.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2005-10-05 21:22  

#9  Love the jingle, Ogeretla2005.

> The ruling Korean Workers' Party celebrates its 60th anniversary on Monday, and an announcement of the North's next leader could be timed around that event ...

Will Alec Baldwin be MC?
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2005-10-05 13:27  

#8  Penguin :

Dunno about his liver transplant, but there are rumors about advanced brain desease...
Posted by: BigEd   2005-10-05 13:15  

#7  Image hosted by Photobucket.com

Sung to :
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"

Oh who will replace a-little old me,
The Commie tyrant by the sea,
Who can I trust - who will it be,
Before they bury me under that tree.

I have to search both near and far,
So I sing the tune about a twinklin' star,
Don't laugh at me - don't say, "Har-Har",
Or I'll dip you in that red hot tar!

This job is tough I'm so alone,
I work my fingers down to the bone.
There's no one to call up on the phone,
And if I don't pick my son he'll moan.
Posted by: Ogeretla2005   2005-10-05 13:07  

#6  Weren't there rumors that he has advanced liver disease and needs a transplant?
Posted by: Penguin   2005-10-05 11:22  

#5  Clearly the Norks need money and they need to choose a successor. What is needed is the first ever Pay-Per-View “Celebrity Death Match: Korean Leader Edition”. Al the North Korean princes or chosen ones are locked into a cage until one is left breathing and is declared “New Dictator”. At $59.99 a pop on a worldwide scale and we are talking some money here folks. They could probably make enough to order take out from China. If you are out there Dear Leader (and I know you are) I am ready to be the promoter for this.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-10-05 10:44  

#4  I will call him "Mini Mini-me".
Posted by: eLarson   2005-10-05 08:58  

#3  Well, whatever you do when you become the official successor, don't say "I'm going to Disneyland!"
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2005-10-05 07:45  

#2  I hear Sean Penn's in the running.
Posted by: Jake-the-Peg   2005-10-05 05:48  

#1  Lettame guess. Is it no-dong III?
Posted by: Captain America   2005-10-05 02:13  

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