A Moscow diplomacy source also said, “The removal of Chairman Kim Jong Il’s pictures from public places is well known among foreigners living in Pyongyang, and diplomats of each country are working on understanding the meaning of this.”
He conveyed, “Opinions like ‘unsound health,’ that Chairman Kim recently got an operation, and an “internal conflict for power” are spreading, but none has been confirmed.”
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=060000&biid=2004111718248 ^
Who would follow Kim in NK?
"Chairman Kim recently got an operation"
Lobotomy? The creepy thing about this is that we are expecting high level assassinations to be connected with al qaeda. The timing is disturbing in pointing to possible collusion between al qaeda and certain powers in NK government.