North Korea after Kim Jong Il – Political and social perspectives ahead of the expected change of power - International Reports
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North Korea after Kim Jong Il – Political and social perspectives ahead of the expected change of power
by
Dr. Colin Dürkop, Yeo Min-Il
Kim Jong Il has been heading North Korea since 1994. Ever since 2008, however, there have been increasingly more rumours about his bad health, reinforced further by the official promotion of his son Kim Jong Un into a high military and government position. Since 2010 Kim Jong Un is considered to be the official successor of his father nationally and internationally. How real is this succession, and will the DPRK open up under his regime?
