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North Korean Leader's Son Rises as Likely Successor (Kim Jong-un)
Yahoo News ^ | 9/27/2010 | Yahoo News

Posted on 09/27/2010 2:51:41 PM PDT by Dallas59



SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong-il has named his youngest son as a military general, state media said early on Tuesday, marking the first stage of a dynastic succession.

It was the first time the 20-something Kim Jong-un had been mentioned by name in the North's media, and his appointment came just hours before the start of a rare ruling party meeting to elect its supreme leadership.

Kim Jong-il, 68, is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008, but despite his declining health is not expected to go into retirement just yet, experts say. They say his son is too young and inexperienced to fully take the reins.

State news agency KCNA said Kim had issued a directive bestowing military rank on six people including Jong-un, the leader's sister Kyong-hui and Choe Ryong-hae, who is considered a loyal aide of Kim and his family.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: northkorea
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1 posted on 09/27/2010 2:51:45 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: SevenofNine

New Chia Chub.


2 posted on 09/27/2010 2:53:56 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

That cuteee can I borrow that ROFL


3 posted on 09/27/2010 2:57:45 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: Dallas59

If he tries to seize power, he won’t last five minutes. He’ll be no match for the hardline military/intelligence elites that have managed to survive Kim’s reign.


4 posted on 09/27/2010 2:59:44 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: SevenofNine
This one???

5 posted on 09/27/2010 3:01:16 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Niuhuru

All they have to do is put a Twinkie on a fishing line and lead him right out the door.


6 posted on 09/27/2010 3:04:04 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: Dallas59

Imagine that. His son?


7 posted on 09/27/2010 3:05:35 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Niuhuru

“He’ll be no match for the hardline military/intelligence elites that have managed to survive Kim’s reign.”

My suspicion is they ARE his reign. Suppose the current Kim decided to institute freedom of speech and travel. Do you think he would live thru it? If not, who’s running things?


8 posted on 09/27/2010 3:07:05 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker

North Korea just got LOL.


9 posted on 09/27/2010 3:07:38 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: Dallas59

Chia Pudge!!


10 posted on 09/27/2010 3:08:55 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: ModelBreaker

Yep, imagine that.

Doesn’t look like there is a food shortage over there... at least for the elites.


11 posted on 09/27/2010 3:10:29 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: SandRat

How cute ROFL


12 posted on 09/27/2010 3:15:54 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: ModelBreaker

No. I think that Kim still wields power and while he’s weakening, he still is too intimidating to try anything against. You underestimate dictators and what they are capable of. Eastern politics especially. he still likely has a highly loyal cadre to support him still.


13 posted on 09/27/2010 3:22:36 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

“Doesn’t look like there is a food shortage over there... at least for the elites.”

Don’t worry. He’ll import a Jack LaLanne waist belt machine from the US and all will be OK.

I like the pack slung over the shoulder look. American media will speculate that means he is western in outlook and that means a thawing of US/NK relations. (You need to have been alive during the cold war to get one.)


14 posted on 09/27/2010 3:24:43 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Dallas59

Are those real mother of plastic beads on his wrist??


15 posted on 09/27/2010 3:26:41 PM PDT by The Citizen Soldier (What I want for myself, I want for everyone else. -Samuel Milton)
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To: Niuhuru

“No. I think that Kim still wields power and while he’s weakening, he still is too intimidating to try anything against. You underestimate dictators and what they are capable of. Eastern politics especially. he still likely has a highly loyal cadre to support him still.”

Perhaps. But the fact that each of the Kims has been able to “appoint” his successor suggests to me that his successor has actually been picked by the military guys who need another figurehead. Dead or almost dead dictators are notoriously unsuccessful at dictating lines of succession thru multiple generations. Even Stalin couldn’t do it. But a military politbureau could produce this result.


16 posted on 09/27/2010 3:28:59 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker
Imso Ronery, Jr.
17 posted on 09/27/2010 3:41:22 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Dallas59

NO WAY! Must be a Michael Moore twin lost a birth.

All the N. Koreans I’ve seen are so skinny I wonder how
they could walk let alone march.


18 posted on 09/27/2010 3:50:43 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS= Obama's Mosque, taxes, painful death. Is this what you want?)
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To: Dallas59; SevenofNine

This is him.

19 posted on 09/27/2010 3:54:53 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: rdl6989
Maybe many years ago. He looks a bit different in the picture in an earlier post.... more like a fat Lard-A$$.

Must be nice to be in the dictator's family.

20 posted on 09/27/2010 4:02:34 PM PDT by ken in texas (No taglines... out of new ideas, and the others will get me banned.)
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