[AmericanInTokyo]

Front cover of today's Rodong Shinmun (Workers Daily) newspaper from Pyongyang. Why, IT'S A KEEPER!!

Basically says the "Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Has Passed Away" with black bold border and full color shot (usually no color in this daily DPRK official paper to my knowledge).

[caww]

Oh brother! They're certainly going to paint him in a favorable light. I wonder if Hu is planning on making monuments and such to his dad....seems to be part and parcel of establishing the family's hold on power. Propaganda works quite well there...an understatement.

[caww]

This link has some interesting info....

The closest military aides to Kim Jong Un are said to be:

‘Ri Yong Ho’..... chief of the general staff of the military forces and a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.

‘Kim Yong Chol’.... who taught Kim Jong Un at university and is also a member of the Central Military Commission. Also Kim Yong Chol is director of the Ministry of People’s Armed Forces’ Reconnaissance General Bureau.

Kim Jong Un also ‘has a power base in the State Security Department’......(Interesting).... Early this year, he took control of the department by ‘purging’ heavyweight Ryu Kyong.......Since then, Kim Jong Un has instructed the department to ‘strengthen control on North Korean defectors’.

Kim Kyong Hui, director of the Light Industry Department of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party, manages companies and mines independently, and is said to possess one of the largest amounts of foreign currencies in North Korea.

Under those mentors, Kim Jong Un is expected to continue his father’s policy of putting top priority on the country’s military forces.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/korean_peninsula/AJ201112190044