Ким Джонг изразява съмнения в своята лудост да управлява Северна Корея

Статията разглежда отношението на наследника на севрнокорейски президент към бъдещето онаследяване на поста. Младият Ким изрежда редица налудничави идеи, които баща му е проявявал по време на управлението си и счита,че той няма какво още да прибави към тях.

Kim Jong-Un Privately Doubting He's Crazy Enough To Run North Korea

November 1, 2010 | ISSUE 46•44

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA—In surprisingly candid remarks Thursday, Kim Jong-un, heir apparent to North Korea's highest government post, expressed doubt that he was sufficiently out of his mind to succeed his father, longtime dictator Kim Jong-il.

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Kim says the task of somehow becoming "as loony tunes as [his] dad" is a daunting one.

While emphasizing that he was definitely completely insane and would likely be even less stable by the time he assumed power, the younger Kim nevertheless wondered if he could ever be enough of a lunatic to replace the most unhinged leader on the planet.

"Obviously, I know I was handpicked because I'm super crazy," said Kim, the youngest of the 69-year-old dictator's four known children. "But my father's just so great at what he does. Did you know the people of North Korea have heard his voice exactly once, for like five seconds? How nuts is that? Honestly, I look at stuff like that and I think, 'Wow, there's just no way I can ever top Dad.'"

"We're talking about a world-class nutjob here," he added.

Kim told reporters that since emerging as the presumptive next-in-line to lead North Korea, he had spent countless hours trying to come up with his own brand of craziness that would honor the tradition set forth by his father and grandfather, Kim Il-sung, but would also set him apart. After discovering that many of his best ideas had already been taken by his father—including making citizens bow toward wall-sized portraits of himself or claiming to be a demigod whose moods directly influence the weather—Kim admitted he had grown frustrated.



Kim cites this massive and bizarre demonstration as evidence that his chances of ever being able to top his father in the "crazy department" are very slim.

"At this point, I'm not sure what's left for me to do, really," he said. "I mean, according to the Ministry of Information, Dad hit 11 holes-in-one the first time he ever played golf. I'm dead serious. Dad had never even picked up a golf club before, and he hit 38 under par. Where am I supposed to go from there? I guess I can say I ran a marathon in 20 minutes, but isn't that pretty much the same thing?"

"It is the same thing, isn't it?" Kim added. "Ugh."

Kim, who in his rare public appearances wears a plain dark suit, said he ultimately hoped to cultivate an eccentric, yet vaguely sinister look as iconic as his father's pompadour, drab parka, and sunglasses, perhaps something "even nuttier" involving canes, a large yellow raincoat, or possibly a motorized scooter.

Other ideas Kim has had for proving his insanity include placing anyone shorter than himself under permanent house arrest, issuing a new national currency every 90 days, normalizing relations with South Korea, and replacing all medicines with synthetic replications of his own saliva.

"Of course, I have to be careful not to come off as too crazy, because then it would just feel forced and no one would buy it," said Kim, noting that he was working on some slogans that North Korean schoolchildren would be forced to chant three times daily. "Then again, maybe having it come off as forced would make me seem even crazier, because what kind of a maniac would go to such lengths to outdo his father? Right? Or is that just a cop-out?"

Although Kim's birthday is already recognized as a national holiday and any criticism of him is punishable by indefinite sentences in re-education camps, Kim suggested that the stress of living up to his father's insanity had been taking a toll.

"I can't even enjoy the things I used to love, like forcing starving people to perform a five-hour dance routine in my honor, because I spend the whole time obsessing over whether I'm being wacko enough," Kim admitted. "That's what's so special about Dad, you know: He never worries about all that stuff, he just acts like himself. What can I say? The old man set the loony bar pretty high."

When asked if he planned to consult the elder Kim for advice, the future leader said that while his father would almost certainly have valuable insights, the man was far too crazy for even a lunatic like himself to speak to.

"But I've got to prove myself to him somehow," Kim said. "He'll kill me if I don't."

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Damian J. Anderson
Damian.Anderson@gmail.com

Все пак младият бъдещ президент заключава,че няма друг избор. В противен случай,че си навлече гнева на баща си, който може и да го убие.

Държавното управление в Северна Корея

Report: Kim Jong-Nam confronted his father over missteps by his younger brother, the heir apparent

Статията разглежда отношението на северно - корейския лидер Ким Джонг-Нам към военнолюбивите намерения на своя млад полубрат Ким Джонг Ун срещу Южна Корея.



INSIDE NORTH KOREA
East-Asia-Intel.com, October 20, 2010
SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's first son Kim Jong-Nam, who has lost out in a family power struggle, met his father in Beijing in late August to protest against his younger half-brother and heir-apparent Kim Jong-Un's military provocation on South Korea, Seoul's public broadcaster KBS said.


Kim Jong-Nam, the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, waves after his first-ever interview with South Korean media in Macau in June. AP/JoongAng Ilbo, Shin In-Seop
Jong-Nam visited a hotel in China where Kim Jong-Il was staying on his secret tour and told his father to punish Jong-Un, who was said to have been behind the North's submarine attack in March on the South's warship Cheonan that killed 46 sailors.

Jong-Nam said that Jong-Un masterminded the torpedo attack to make up for a botched currency reform late last year that Jong-Un had also masterminded, KBS said, citing Jong-Nam's close associations in China.

He told his father to stop condoning Jong-Un's behaviors and warned if the half-brother keeps misbehaving then he "would go his own way," the broadcaster said.

South Korea, citing a multinational investigation, accuses the North of torpedoing the warship, but the North has denied responsibility.

The attack has led to toughened international sanctions on the nation's already crippled economy.

KBS said the mysterious delay of the Workers' Party conference in September was due to Jong-Nam's protest.

"There are many supporters of Kim Jong-Nam in China and North Korea," the associate was quoted as saying.

The Party planned to hold a representatives' meeting, the first such meeting in 44 years, in early September. Party delegates were seen arriving in Pyongyang for the gathering with posters setting up in the city hailing the occasion.

But the Party conference was delayed to Sept. 28 with no explanations, which touched off speculations over a power struggle over the country's next leadership.

Jong-Un officially made his debut at the conference as his father's successor by being named as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission. He was also given a rank of four-star general in the country's powerful People's Army.

Days later, in an interview with Japan's Asahi TV, Jong-Nam expressed opposition to the planned hereditary succession, a remark that some in the North considered traitorous.

Some North Korea watchers in Seoul said the race for the North's next leadership is still ongoing.

"Kim Jong-Un has been given key posts in the Party and the military, but his status as a heir has not been fixed," said Kim Kun-Shik, a North Korea expert at Seoul's Kyungnam University. Jong-Un is still undergoing a qualifying examination, he said.

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Damian J. Anderson
Damian.Anderson@gmail.com

Вашингтон Таймс увеличава абонатите си

A More National Washington Times?
Although higher ups maintain that its just in the brainstorming phase, we hear that, during a recent meeting with Washington Times brass and a handful of top reporters, Executive Editor John Solomon discussed a still-in-the-works plan to begin national distribution of the newspaper.

According to sources, The Times would appear as an insert within other papers; the inserts could be the full A section of the daily Washington broadsheet, or truncated to 12 or 16 pages. While many other papers are cutting back, The Times may expand to as many as a dozen cities, although exactly which cities is still up in the air.

The newspaper abandoned its printing operations earlier this year and is now printed in Baltimore. A new national distribution deal would likely mirror that arrangement, sources said.

The paper also recently unveiled a new wire service to distribute its copious copy to newspapers across the country.




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