[TigerLikesRooster]

Kim Jong-il completed the divinity of his father Kim Il-sung. After making his father a god, he had claimed the divine son of god, another god by hereditary link. However, toward the end of his life, he was less worshiped than feared. Now we have his son who tries to claim his divinity via hereditary line. The trouble is that he may well be neither worshiped nor feared. The personality cult of Kim family is dying. Fast. No cult worship means no rule. That is where things are heading toward in N. Korea.

Kim Jong-eun will probably try to fight to the bitter end to defend the cult. For others around them, I am not so sure. The members of regime's inner circle will evaluate the situation on a daily basis: Do I benefit from standing by the cult or turning against it? Or should I just opt out with stashed cash in hand?

For now, everybody is laying low to see how things will pan out. Everybody is trying to get a hint by figuring out what others are up to.

[AdmSmith]

Yes, they are laying low as can be seen on the news agency web page: In Korean it is Dec 29 http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-k.htm and the English translation http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2011/calendar-2011e.html is only Dec 27.

No instructions or holiday?