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KIM JONG-IL’S SON PROBABLY LIKES NUKES JUST AS MUCH AS HIS DAD
December 19 2011
Pyongyang, North Korea – There has been some chatter, idle and hopeful perhaps, that the death of Kim Jong-Il will bring about some semblance of democracy in North Korea. That hope is primarily a result of his son, Kim Jong-Un who will take over for his father as leader of the nation. The younger Kim is, after all, western educated and of a much different generation than his elderly father. He is, though, still a Kim.
Despite those hopes the new leader, dubbed The Great Successor, still must operate within the system created by his grandfather and matured by his father. He has also, despite that experience in the wider world, still been raised by his father, likely to believe in that specific vision of the nation.
For the elder, now deceased, Kim much of that specific vision had to do with an obsession with nuclear weapons. While the evidence of nukes in the country is vague at best, though it is widely assumed that an arsenal of some size does exist, it is believed likely that the new leader will have taken on some of his father’s obsession with the bomb, meaning that the program will continue and possibly even explode as the new leader tries to make his own distinct mark, something not easy to do given his father’s legacy.
“Everything is quiet now, but at the first sign of instability, the immediate question is going to be who’s really in control of the nukes. There’s really no situation worse than this: to have the most opaque regime with nuclear weapons and without a clear leader. It doesn’t get more dangerous than that,” said Victor D. Cha of Washington think-tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The country reportedly had enough enriched plutonium to create six atomic devices in 2003 and has had one successful test, in 2009.
It’s not clear if the younger Kim shares similar interests as his father, such as basketball and tall blondes.
“There are really tow possibilities with the new regime. One is that he follows in his father’s footsteps and continues with things as normal, well normal for North Korean standards anyway. The second is that he tries to distinguish himself from his father and, given the military and social complex in the country, something like democracy likely wouldn’t be the way he does that,” said Scrape TV North Korean analyst Lee Joo-Chan. “This could really be an explosive situation, a really explosive situation, and that would not be good for many people.”
Those who have met the younger Kim describe him as sweaty and awkward, which likely has created a deep complex.
“The danger is that he is more nuts than his father. They have some degree of nuclear technology and that, in the hands of a crazy person, likely would not be a good thing. Crazy people and nukes tend to not be the best combination of things,” continued Lee. “I doubt he’ll blow up anyone but the sabre rattling will certainly increase. That is a given, he needs to define his position. Hopefully the tensions in the region won’t get too explosive, because, well, that would be really explosive.”
In recent weeks, the country has bragged about major advances in its nuclear program, just as most people would expect they would.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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