N.Korea's Kim picks third son as Successor
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SEOUL (AFP)-South Korea's main spy agency believes North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has designated his third and youngest son, Jong-un, as his successor, a lawmaker said. The South's National Intelligence Service (NIS) informed a closed parliamentary hearing on Monday of the development, Park Jie-Won of the main opposition Democratic Party said in an SBS radio interview. " I was notified by the government (Monday) that there are such movements, and that (North Koreans) are making pledges of loyalty to Kim Jong-Un,"
he said. According to South Korean media reports, Kim is understood to have informed his
military, parliament and diplomats abroad of the nomination shortly after the communist North's second nuclear test on May 25. The NIS and other officials declined to confirm the reports. "Our ministry has yet to confirm the nomination of Kim Jung-un as successor,"
Chun Hae-Sung, spokesman for the unification ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs, told reporters. Kim's eldest son--Jong Nam, 37, who was born to a different mother--apparently spoiled his prospects as leader after being deported from Japan in 2001 for trying to enter the country with a forged passport. Some analysts have seen his second son, 27-year-old Kim Jong-Chul, as the favorite to take over. Kenji Fujimoto, a former Japanese sushi chef for the North Korean leader, has said in a memoir that Kim thought of Jong-Chul as too feminine and unfit for leadership. He described Jong-Un as a "chip off the old block, a spitting image of his father in terms of face, body shape and personality.
he said. According to South Korean media reports, Kim is understood to have informed his
military, parliament and diplomats abroad of the nomination shortly after the communist North's second nuclear test on May 25. The NIS and other officials declined to confirm the reports. "Our ministry has yet to confirm the nomination of Kim Jung-un as successor,"
Chun Hae-Sung, spokesman for the unification ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs, told reporters. Kim's eldest son--Jong Nam, 37, who was born to a different mother--apparently spoiled his prospects as leader after being deported from Japan in 2001 for trying to enter the country with a forged passport. Some analysts have seen his second son, 27-year-old Kim Jong-Chul, as the favorite to take over. Kenji Fujimoto, a former Japanese sushi chef for the North Korean leader, has said in a memoir that Kim thought of Jong-Chul as too feminine and unfit for leadership. He described Jong-Un as a "chip off the old block, a spitting image of his father in terms of face, body shape and personality.
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Here Kim Jong and his clone Kim Jong II model the latest in space fashion just before driving their space ship back to their Ultra-Secret Space Base in Pyangbang.
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