Tuesday, January 17, 2012

N Korea Dilemma


"The Kim Jong-un regime will not last long," Kim Jong-nam is said to have written, forecasting a power struggle. "Without reforms, North Korea will collapse, and when such changes take place, the regime will collapse." 
 …displeased his father by calling for reform and market-opening and "was eventually viewed with suspicion". His views meant that the overseas education of his brothers and sister was shortened.
 He also claimed to have told Kim Jong-il how concerned the international community was about the nuclear tests and missile launches. 
 … on good terms with their aunt and uncle. Kim Kyong-hui and Jang Song-taek have become increasingly prominent in North Korean media and appear to be guiding the new leader as he assumes power, …
I am not sure what this indicates, but I can not brush away about the 1970s China political situation under Mao.   The final years of Mao and near his death, he appointed an inexperience Hua Guofeng as his successor and while  he exiled his political rival more reformer Deng. Later Deng’s  spectacle comeback.  The above Kim’s comments put things together who knows what is going to happen, and timely releasing these comments( whether the statement  true or not confirmed yet). Like a time bomb!  I am just saying!