Posted on 01/25/2009 2:02:56 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
North Korean leader's eldest son could still be heir: analysts
January 25, 2009, 3:53 pm
SEOUL (Reuters) - A comment by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's eldest son Kim Jong-nam that he is not interested in the issue of succession does not imply he is out of the competition to run the country, analysts said on Sunday.
In comments to reporters at a hotel in Beijing on Saturday, the younger Kim said "I have no interest," when asked if he was interested in the leadership succession issue, according to Yonhap News Agency.
He said succession was only for his father to decide, as he had also stated earlier when he met reporters upon arriving at a Beijing airport.
"The response by Kim Jong-nam doesn't imply that he isn't willing to succeed," said Moon Hong-sik, Research Fellow at Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS).
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Ping!
Even piggier than his old man. Barf.
Amazing how ugly the DPRK leaders are. Each generation they get fuglier and fuglier.
Kim Jong-Nam in not the Hair Apparent.
/sarcasm
This guy probably realizes that, if, e.g., some ambitious, high-ranking general should happen to out-manoever him and succeed "dear old dad," he (Jong-nam) would soon find himself dangling at the end of a rope.
Regards,
Korea is obamas model for America.
Don’t the people of NK get to have a say in who their next Dear Leader is?
(Nope. He just admits that it’s only his father who will decide what the succession is.)
So the People’s Republic of NK is neither of the people nor a republic (which we all knew anyway; but it’s nice to have someone from NK officially admit it.)
Why not?
Seems to me it might be effective in dealing with our own leftists, each of whom would be king (if they could get away with it). We might as well start calling them the power freaks that they are.
Now all must pray, the king is Il!
Apparently many people in that poor country are either Sik or Il...
He reminds me of the nerdy comics guy in “The Simpsons.”
I was thinking of same thing too PJ LOLOLOLOL!
Nerdy fan boy on the Simpsons
HEy Tiger
Aussie Press pick up the story of Chia Pet picking his successor
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24959200-401,00.html
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