Kim Family
The Women around Kim Jong-il
(n.b. This will be the first in a series of occasional postings about the people and personalities close to Kim Jong-il. Some of this will relate to succession issues or to the broader dynamics of […]
Guidance From the North Country
(n.b. Kim Jong-il’s last appearance was around 22 October at a guidance tour of the 26 September and 22 October Pig Farms) Kim Jong-il and the guidance party did not take a break for the […]
Habemus Successor? Or Thaek it to the Limit?
Another report has surfaced in the South Korean press that Kim Jong-un is undergoing a “grooming process” (what Medieval Europe royalty would term a “prince’s education”) to succeed his father. The Korea Herald reports that […]
Kim Jong-un's First KPA Guidance Tour?
It seems Kim Jong-un (Kim Jong-il’s youngest son and supposed successor) was deflowered in the role of conducting a guidance tour solus. Chosun Ilbo reports that Mr. Kim inspected the KPA’s IX Army Corps based […]
More Succession Scuttlebutt
Last week, Nam Sung-wook, an expert on the DPRK Leadership who is an adviser to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, gave a lecture in Seoul where he contended that Kim Jong-un’s succession was put in […]
Morningstar General's Footsteps, Encore
UPDATE AFP (Agence France Prese) has additional information concerning Nam Sung-wook’s lecture about Kim Jong-un’s succession being muted. The AFP report goes on to say that Jang Song-thaek “has also been sidelined for the time […]
Morningstar General's Footsteps
The reliable Tony Chang has an interesting (and anonymously sourced) story in Yonhap concerning the possible succession of Kim Jong-un. I am not holding my breath until, perhaps around the year 2012, when we hear […]
