Kim Jong-un On the Succession Fast-Track

Duyeon Kim | Sep 28, 2010 | there are 0 comments 0

As you know the buzz is that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's youngest son Kim Jong-un (age 27 or 28) has just been promoted to four-star general. This essentially makes it official that he will succeed the ailing Dear Leader. I've put up an analysis of the latest military promotion on the Center's webiste - click here for the full story.

However, my analysis does not include the newest update: Kim Jong-un has also received senior political posts in the communist party - this was reported by the North's state-run KCNA rather late (early Wednesday morning Korea time, late Tuesday evening  EST). When my article was written, there was no word of this until hours later after work when I was at home casually browing through KCNA's webiste. They dated it "September 28" even though it appeared online on September 29 Korea time. Anyway, this portion will be updated Wednesday with an analysis on the Center's website so stay tuned!  

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