No doubt, his clawed hands clinging to power until the very last moment. I can imagine a scenario in which all of the top leadership croaks within a period of a month. The country would be very vulnerable in such a situation. Ahem. Let us hope and pray that such a potentially positive development does not occur during the Obama administration, and go to waste.
Didn't they learn anything from the Soviet Union, where the old farts, Andropov and Cherneko dropped dead less than a year after getting the leadership.