Coronation date set for Crown Prince of North Korea.

[grouchy13]

A rare meeting has been called of the North Korean ruling council for Sept 28th , the biggest for decades it is expected that Kim Jong Il will announce his Son as his succesor,

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE68K03220100921

Rare North Korea meeting on Sept 28

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North Korea to select successor

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (C) visits the Manpho Unhwa factory in Manpho, Chagang Province, near the border with China, in this undated picture released on September 13, 2010 by North Korea's KCNA news agency.
Credit: Reuters/KCNA




North Korea to select successor (01:26) Report


By Jeremy Laurence and Ju-min Park
SEOUL | Tue Sep 21, 2010 4:02pm BST

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's ruling party will hold its biggest meeting in decades on September 28 to pick a new leadership, state media reported on Tuesday, and likely anoint an heir to the dynasty as Kim Jong-il's health deteriorates.
Kim, who is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008, has reportedly accelerated succession plans, and analysts say his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, is likely to be given an official title at the Workers' Party conference.
The North's KCNA news agency said the conference would be held in Pyongyang "for electing its supreme leadership body," but provided no further details of the agenda.
The meeting had been slated to start in early September. The report made no mention of the delay.
South Korea said it appeared the meeting was held up by "internal problems," probably related to flooding. Media reports have also speculated Kim's health or disagreements over a reshuffle of the power structure could be responsible for the delay.
Party meetings have been held around the country to elect delegates to the conference, KCNA reported.
"The meetings elected working people and officials who have displayed patriotic devotion at the work sites for effecting a fresh revolutionary surge, remaining intensely loyal to the party and revolution as delegates to the conference," it said.
Next week's meeting will be the biggest gathering of the reclusive state's political elite since 1980, when Kim himself began his official role to succeed his father and state founder by taking on a Workers' Party title at the age of 38.

As students of History will know the Succesion of any Dynasty presents the greatest of threats for it's continuation. Following the rare Visit of Kim Jong Il to China, a visit I believe with the agenda of securing Chinese support for his son I believe Kim Jong Il is making his curtain call on the grand scheme of securing the safe succesion of His son Kim Jong Un and as contreversial as it may be the US has played into North Korean hands and have all but secured Kim Jong- Un's succession, let me explain,
following the Cheonan Incident the US and South Korean governments have carried a number of Exercises as a show of force to North Korea, These Exercises have been as I mentioned above condenmed by the Chinese, what then happens ,Kim Jong-Il conducts a State visit to China, no doubt he will have seized on the US and South Korean exercises at a time that the Chinese have become increasingly frustrated at what they see as US meddling within their sphere of influence and concerns over the US undermining there intrests to present his son as leader who will continue to support them and will not rock the boat by changing the dynamics of the region,
Exactly what China will be wanting,
I'm not suggesting that the North Korean leadership is as contrived to have engineered the Cheonan incident to secure the succession, but they have certainly used the reprucussions to their advantage.
Will the handover go without hitch I suspect a round of bloodletting to follow as Kim Jong Un eliminates any potential rivals or anyone whose loyalty comes under suspicion then a period of consiladation as he seeks to display his authority, perhaps a foray into the world stage, a very very interesting period awaits I believe.

[America74]

No wonder no one has been able to assassinate him... he's too short so when he walks behind walls, he's lower than they are...

[Azog 150]

Now all we need is for a bomb to be dropped on that meeting place...

[Treize]

Couldn't resist:

[Stavroforos]

I'm sure Elizabeth will be glad to know she can finally relate to one more person in the world.

[Azog 150]

I'm sure Elizabeth will be glad to know she can finally relate to one more person in the world.

And the other 44 Monarchies of the world (Well, 28 including ones she isn't Head of State of)

God save the Queen!!

[Gromovnik]

God save the Queen!!

from north korean secret weapon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulgasari

[skh1]

I'm rooting for this guy:

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Kim Jung-Nam (one in every family, I suppose.)

Oh, found this, here it is, why not?

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[MAXlMUS]

I'm rooting for this guy:

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Kim Jung-Nam (one in every family, I suppose.)

he has a louis vuitton bag?? i thought that's for women only..

[Stavroforos]

I wonder if the Queen of the United Kingdom ever talks to the Queen of Canada? They probably have so much gossip about the Queen of Jamaica!

[Exarch]

hopefully the new kid'll be smart and allow modernisation and more freedoms

[illyrius]

Hail to the Kingdom of North Korea. Whoever gets the Crown is brainwashed that's my opinion

[Azog 150]

Hail to the Kingdom of North Korea. Whoever gets the Crown is brainwashed that's my opinion

Whoever gets the Crown does the brainwashing more like

[Armenum]

I hope his son is as fun as his father

[Jenuensis]

hopefully the new kid'll be smart and allow modernisation and more freedoms

QFT. I don't hate north koreans - I love Korean culture and stuff but I hate the North's government. I would love to be friends with the North Korean people if the government allows modernization and freedoms. Maybe cease the cold war brain washing?

[Pious Agnost]

You recognized it?

[Exarch]

man, i wish i were the scion of the Great Leader; i could have all the caviare and cogna that i want and all the pussy on the northern aprt of the peninsula.

anyhoo, hope he does well, an not let the ppl starve

[Jom]

Strangely, we probably know as much if not a little more about Kim Jong-Il's successor. The world has only seen one confirmed photograph of him and that was him at 12. He's now 27 and a three-star general; the BBC did some interviews with Korean defectors and apparently all the information they've been given is that a new general will come to continue to guide them to greatness. Meanwhile, Korea is actually in the grip of a famine, although it's not as bad as the one in 1995.

[Armenum]

Strangely, we probably know as much if not a little more about Kim Jong-Il's successor. The world has only seen one confirmed photograph of him and that was him at 12. He's now 27 and a three-star general; the BBC did some interviews with Korean defectors and apparently all the information they've been given is that a new general will come to continue to guide them to greatness. Meanwhile, Korea is actually in the grip of a famine, although it's not as bad as the one in 1995.

Will North Korea ever have it's own perestroika??

[Jaketh]

a stray cruise missile aimed at the coronation would end all the problems