[caww]

Yea, it was pretty poor reporting...but then consider the source..they do so with most reporting...never get things right but always thru the prism of their choosing. Perhaps sometime in the far future we'll hear the truth from the people of N. Korea, but I tend to think not much at all will change in their condition nor their country.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I expect high level DPRK defections over the next six months. And, it could be easily encouraged. (Of course, then we could get the whole story about the funeral and which parts were phony/staged). Every man has his price. Lots of seasoned, aged DPRK leaders I think are just not ready to follow a 27 year old kid who only knows basketball and violent PC games and who only has the position because he merely orginated as a spermatazoa from his father, the Dear Leader—nothing on merit at all.