N. Korea unveils first photo of Kim Jong-un

[powerfulguy]

He’s chubby-cheeked and serious, wearing a dark blue Mao suit. He's sandwiched between two elderly generals, his father one general away on his left.

Thus Kim Jong-un, the heir presumptive to power over North Korea, made his photo debut on Thursday after years of speculation about when North Koreans, and the rest of the world, would get a glimpse of him.

The photograph, released by North Korea Thursday, was promptly displayed on television and in newspapers in South Korea as proof positive that the young man, in his late 20s, is definitely on the fast track to the job held by his ailing father. Its dissemination came two days after Kim Jong-il made him a general along with five others, including his aunt, and one day after he was named a vice chairman of the military commission of the Workers’ Party.

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He’s chubby-cheeked and serious, wearing a dark blue Mao suit. He's sandwiched between two elderly generals, his father one general away on his left.

Thus Kim Jong-un, the heir presumptive to power over North Korea, made his photo debut on Thursday after years of speculation about when North Koreans, and the rest of the world, would get a glimpse of him.

The photograph, released by North Korea Thursday, was promptly displayed on television and in newspapers in South Korea as proof positive that the young man, in his late 20s, is definitely on the fast track to the job held by his ailing father. Its dissemination came two days after Kim Jong-il made him a general along with five others, including his aunt, and one day after he was named a vice chairman of the military commission of the Workers’ Party.

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He was supposed to have been educated in Berne Switzerland, where i hope has seen how the rest of the world do thing’s (some good some bad) and with privileges that come with being his father's successor, challenges him to bring enlightenment on his people and how to deal with the world community at large.

Hopefully time will tell but will have to be extremely strong willed if he wants to make a difference in North Korea in the future.

How likely would it be, if and when he becomes Supreme Leader of North Korea, that if the lower ruling elite if he was to make changes to the way NK operates that there would be a coup d'état for as far as I can see it has not occurred in North Korea before but in the South has happen twice before in the coup d'état of May 16, 1961 and the Coup d'état of December 12 1979.

Being a communist country and the bloodshed that has occurred in the old Soviet Union for where most of its political corporate knowledge has come from what ramifications would this have on the country and would China step in to stop the country from imploding?