[AmericanInTokyo]

Analysis coming from Maehara, former Foreign Minister (of ruling DPJ here in Tokyo) is that we now enter a period of possible civil war and outflow of refugees. He is not discounting it, in national TV. I hope he is incorrect. He is just saying what COULD happen. Man things are TENSE TODAY.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Update: from Chosun Ilbo and JoongAng Ilbo

Line-up of the funeral committee

No. 1 Kim Jong-eun (son and heir apparent)
No. 14 Kim Kyung-hee (sister)
No. 19 Jang Sung-taek (Kim Kyung-hee’s husband)

All airplanes in and out of S. Korea would carry extra fuel and take detour, safely away from N. Korean airspace

Health authorities of S. Korea is on bio-terror watch

N. Korea is currently under blanket curfew.

Funeral Plan:

Kim Jong-il’s body is placed in Kumsusan Memorial Palace(where his father Kim Il-sung is placed)

Funeral will be held on Dec. 28, 2011

Mourning period is until Dec. 29.

Central Memorial rally in Pyongyang is on Dec. 29.
Each town and province will hold their own memorial rally on the same day.

No foreign dignitaries will be invited.

[af_vet_rr]

Analysis coming from Maehara, former Foreign Minister (of ruling DPJ here in Tokyo) is that we now enter a period of possible civil war and outflow of refugees. He is not discounting it, in national TV. I hope he is incorrect. He is just saying what COULD happen. Man things are TENSE TODAY.

North Korea is going to bust wide open one of these years. Too much famine, and now there is a kid, relatively speaking, at the head of the government, who might be at odds with the old guys that actually run the place.

Even if he was interested in reform, no reform can happen without order falling apart in a country as bad off as North Korea. I would not be surprised if North Korea tried to create their own version of the Mariel boatlift. Would get the people out of the country who are most likely to start a civil war or support a coup.