[TigerLikesRooster]

Boils down to the fight over who gets how much cut?

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[RichInOC]

In the end, there can be only Un.

[GeronL]

If it is true it is. How much of the shrinking pie do we get?

[no-to-illegals]

Tiger ... one has to think the headline is probably accurate but only to a point. This is a strange setup between Un and the military in n. korea. With everyone in the region set to go nuclear soon because of china’s rumblings and n. korea’s rumblings would instead pose the following question ... n.korea is the known puppet of china, one has to believe, and the ruse instead is n. korea’s Un and n. korea’s military being a puppet of china’s leaders and china’s military is it not china pulling all the strings? My answer to this question would be a yes. Any thoughts?

[piytar]

Those insular hard liners just pizzed off China. Posted earlier that Un may get a cold. Well, it just might be a VERY contagious cold!

[no-to-illegals]

their money-making operations.

Someone correct me if am wrong but isn't the most lucrative of n. korea's money making operations counterfeiting U.S. money?

[crazyhorse691]

You are seeing a preview of what is in store for the USA.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Liberals like to claim that the military is the most dangerous faction in a country. But hasn't history shown us that the military is often the most stabilizing faction?

And if NK's military is similar to Egypt's in that they've devolved into an oligopolistic business then wouldn't they tend to be even more stabilizing in order to keep the money flowing?

[StormEye]

"If that is true, then the only faction strong enough to pull off such a plot is the powerful military."

What a brilliant deduction.
The ones who have the guns and muscle are calling the shots.
How did they ever come up with that idea?

[AdmSmith]

Is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choe_Ryong-hae the new boss?

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/12/19/2013121901640.html

[Zionist Conspirator]

One former South Korean minister who had been in charge of diplomacy and national security affairs, told the Chosun Ilbo in a telephone interview, "Looking at Jang Song-taek's sentence and the events surrounding it, I wonder if Kim Jong-un is being pushed around by an unseen figure."

98 and a half years old, and ol' David Rockefeller is still running things! [/humor]

[Wuli]

It would be interesting if true - the idea, that the dictatorship’s propaganda machine elevating the Kim’s to near godlike status as the “saviors” of the nation has created something so strong - in what the North Korean people believe - that even a powerful military cabal must keep it alive, at least for public consumption, as without it they will not be able to keep their own legitamacy in the public mind.

It also begs a question - what would such a cabal do if somehow all the Kims and all their heirs were somehow eliminated? Would it survive the loss of the Kims or would it lose control of the people?