You guys make anything of Sung-taek showing up in military garb (a full general’s uniform no less)?
He was always suspected to be one of the powers behind the throne and to be the “regent” directing Kim Jong-Eun once his dad passed. But no known history of time in the military. Strikes me that if all the other assumptions about Sung-taek are true (powerful civilian party official, had Jong-Il’s ear and hand-picked to be Jong-Eun’s regent) and now we can also add full general to the list - he is looking more and more like he is on the very top of the food chain.
My 2cents is that he is the true ruler and that he has been that for some time= more than a year. The Christmas pig (JIu) is just a symbol used by fishlips (Jang Sung-taek). Since they have a Military first principle JSt has to be on the top of the heap, i.e be 4 * general together with JSt.
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Check out this 1 hour, 22 minutes with an interesting discussion, especially by Jack Pritchard
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Jong
Death of Kim Jong Il - C-SPAN Video Library.
Thanks W for the link.