Sources: Kim Jong-Il has chosen third son as heir (regime, military, leader)

[delusianne]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who has heightened tensions in the region with a nuclear test, missile launches and military threats, has reportedly tapped third son Kim Jong-un as his successor, intelligence sources say.
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Experts have linked the North’s recent nuclear test to the issue of succession, saying it was an attempt to show solidarity with the military, whose support is essential for the smooth transition of power in Pyongyang.

INSIDE JoongAng Daily (http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2905585 - broken link)

[CasusBelli]

why are we preventing N Korea from obtaining nukes??? They should be given the right to have nukes.....and I think the US should give them nukes.....















just let our stealth bombers drop it on top of them since they want it so badly

[PaulG_1]

More background on Kim Jong-un.

"In 2007, a flurry of reports emerged placing the third son in either the Korean Workers' Party's (KWP's) powerful Organization Guidance Department, where Kim Jong Il began his career in 1964, or the Korean People's Army's influential General Political Bureau. Both of these bodies are charged with surveillance and monitoring of the regime's powerful party, military, and security bodies."

Foreign Policy: The Rise of Kim Jong-Un

Will be traveling but will check the threads for any additional information, whether this one or Google Earth.