Posted on 10/22/2009 6:24:59 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-il has halted a propaganda campaign to promote his youngest son as his successor after Kim Jong-Un began flexing his muscles prematurely, a leading South Korean researcher has claimed.
Kim Jong-Un, 25, was named in reports as the ailing dictator's designated successor last June, but relations between father and son have since become strained, said Nam Sung-Wook, chief of South Korea's Institute for National Security Strategy.
"Kim Jong-il knows so well that two suns should not exist in the sky," Professor Nam told a specialist forum on North Korea.
In June and July Kim Jong-Un had dared to "confront" his father over military personnel management matters, he added, and as a result Kim senior had begun suppressing the influence of his son.
"Talk about power succession has submerged since August," Professor Nam said, although he did not go as far as to suggest that the eventual succession plan had changed.
A South Korean legislator, citing a confidential report, has said Kim Jong-Un is expected to be officially named as successor some time between 2010 and 2012.
Speculation over who would succeed Kim Jong-il mounted this year after the state became increasingly erratic, testing long-range missiles in defiance of UN sanctions and, in March, a second nuclear device.
Analysts argued that Kim Snr was staging a show of force to shore up domestic political support for his regime prior to nominating the Swiss-educated Kim Jong-Un to follow him.
The urgency of the succession appeared to be driven in part by Kim's failing health, after he appeared in May in front of the country's rubber stamp Parliament, looking obviously frail and shaky.
However during more recent outings – at a meeting with US President Bill Clinton in August and last week when
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OH OH Chia Pet is getting anxious about his son
Bump
I ping Tiger and AmericaninTokyo on this
BOY we may have family feud here remind me lots of Days of our lives
LOL!
Ru shrink ru be reader, but not shro fasht bruddy broy
I am serious right now Kim Jong 11 play role of Stefano DiMera and his younger son EJ is getting spank by him and Tony and John Black don’t like it
It remind me alot of Days of our lives in 1990s
You can see that an arrogant, dictatorial despot might not want to let go of banners with his likeness streaming from every building, children singing hymns to his greatness, and a fawning, sycophantic press that breathlessly reports his every word as if it were immortal, received wisdom. But enough about 0bama.
LOL!!!
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