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| 'Kim Jong-Il opposed succession' |
| 2011-01-29 |
[Pak Daily Times] North Korean leader Kim Dear LeaderJong-Il ... hereditary dictator of North Korea. His definition of reunificationisn't the same as the definition in Seoul... was against a third-generation succession of power but named his youngest son as the next leader to ensure national stability, his eldest son told a Japanese newspaper. In a rare interview published Friday, Kim Jong-Nam, who has lived abroad for years after apparently falling out of favour with his father, also called on his half-brother, the heir apparent Kim Jong-Un, to improve North Koreans' lives. 'Hereditary succession did not happen even under Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong,' the 39-year-old told the Tokyo Shimbun in a 90-minute interview conducted earlier this month in southern China. '(Hereditary succession) does not fit socialism and my father was against it,' he said in comments translated into Japanese. 'I understand that it was done in order to stabilise the framework of the nation,' he said. 'Instability of North Korea will lead to instability of the surrounding region.' Kim Jong-Il, 68, is seen as setting up the transfer of power to his third son Jong-Un, who is believed to be 27 and who accompanied his father on about one-fifth of his excursions last year. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Interesting that Kim Jong-Il is opposed to hereditary succession now. He inherited the leadership from his father, after all. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2011-01-29 16:04 |
| #5 It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm schmart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm schmart and I want respect! |
| Posted by: Fredo Jong-Nam 2011-01-29 13:50 |
| #4 Two words: Disneyland Pyongyang. He could have had it all. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2011-01-29 08:27 |
| #3 That's not much of a choice. On one hand, all expense paid whoring and drinking and visiting Disneyland, and on the other hand, ruling over a cold, poor, starving nation, filled with paranoid military officers, and lorded over by the Chinese. Sounds like he chose well. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-29 07:18 |
| #2 Funny, he might actually be right. Go with what you know, rather than allow factional infighting and civil war. And Jong-Nam, it all could have been yours, had you not liked whoring and drinking and visiting Disneyland so much. |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-01-29 06:18 |
| #1 KIM JONG-NAM also repor admitted on the LOW QUALITY-OF-LIFE permeating inside North Korea, + that IHO North Korea will never give up its NucProgs as long as it is at loggerheads = feels threatened by the USA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-29 00:06 |