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This is extraordinarily dangerous.

Kim Jong-un, his ~28 y/o son, has.not been prepared as long as expected. His regents, Kim Jung Il's sister & her husband, are politically weak themselves but regarded overseas as "evil" even in diplomatic circles. This may force Kim Jung-un to make an aggressive move vs. the South to solidify his position.

It's also possible China could move to take over NK "to restore order" in which case NK nukes could fly at China, conventionals or nukes at the South & US forces to get us involved, or both. Basically; take everyone down with them.

Or....the populace could do everyones worst nightmare; head across the border into China & SK.

This could get ugly.

or in a brighter way , poplance rise up against little kim gov (Arab spring style )

or coup by Military top brass?

The Army, or at least most of it, would not allow that. It's also possible the Army could fracture and we'd see a civil war. What's troubling about that is that their nuclear command & control systems are suspected to be distributed, commanders can independently launch strikes, not centralized like the US.

The issue is not whether it is the son (third one I believe) will lead, or any of the Kim family. It is whether they submit to the generals, which is why it is more dangerous.

Revered as Kim Jong Il was, the same could not be said for the rest of the family, brother or son. It is the perfect time for the generals to actually take over, with the army behind them, they are primed to grab a big slice of the cake. They won't dare to move when Jong Il was alive as the country and army would surely had been been behind him.

In any scenario, it is not unlikely NK would try to be aggressive, if not physical certainly in foreign policies. Unfortunately, I don't think they are a nation of prudence, even if Iran is bad as the West paint them as to be, you always have the feeling they know what is their best interests. I cannot say for NK. Though I doubt the extremity of Kim's policies would be reflected in whoever is going to be his predecessor, at worse we are going to see an increased armed force.

putting all politics and the west vs n.korea aside, I'm happy to hear that he is finally dead (Y) (Y), the amount of unnecessary suffering and problems he has caused because of his stupid selfishness should easily pave his way to hell if it existed .

Yeah right! He died of living a life of absolute luxury, while the rest of North Korea died of hunger and overworking. :rolleyes:

The Kims built an old-fashioned *cult of personality* in the DPRK - it's not a Communist state in the Soviet (except maybe Stalinist) model, or even the PRC model. Even the PRC has issues with the DPRK (in fact, they had issues with them while Kim Il-Sung was alive). The Kims have been the PRC's Noriega/Saddam/Shah - an embarrassment they are, unfortunately, stuck with. (That's not my opinion, either, though I do share it - that is the rather candid opinion of the PRC government, admitted during the last six-party talks about DPRK nuclear disarmament.)

I'm hoping to see a reunified Korea sometime in my life. South Korea is the only developed nation in the world that is still seeing the growth rates of a developing nation, already on pace to overtake Australia, Canada and several European nations on the economic stage. Imagine what they could be if the reunited with North Korea?

I'm hoping to see a reunified Korea sometime in my life. South Korea is the only developed nation in the world that is still seeing the growth rates of a developing nation, already on pace to overtake Australia, Canada and several European nations on the economic stage. Imagine what they could be if the reunited with North Korea?

Aside from the issues of reintegrating a whole country full of brainwashed people, reunifying the Koreas would actually hurt their overall economy for a few years, remember most N. Koreans are subsistence farmers, they would add to the burdens S Korea already has, N. Korea does not have enough educated workers to employ even IF there were enough jobs for a majority of them.

A much as I too would love to see a reunited Democratic Korea, it won't be easy or pretty for a long time if/when it happens.

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