The Dear Leader Cleans House for the Young General
South Korean intelligence institutions have been assessing the old and ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s ability to organize an orderly succession by his youngest son, Kim Jong-un. In particular, they have been monitoring the body count of senior North Korean officials who have suddenly retired, disappeared, or died in automobile accidents.
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SEOUL – There was a time, not long after the Cold War’s end, when almost everyone assumed that North Korea would soon collapse. The sudden death in 1994 of Kim Il-sung, the founder of the tyrannical, economically disastrous North Korean experiment, reinforced this belief. That was then.