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...spooky unreality of a country that was building a 105-story tourist hotel while allowing almost no tourists, and showing off an Olympic stadium for the Games that were never held there. A typical book on sale was a biography of the new President, Kim's son, Kim Jong Il. Titled The Great Man KIM JONG IL (and boasting a picture of the Kimjongilia flower on its cover), it included chapters titled "Boundless Solicitude," "A World-Startling Miracle" and "The Once Annoying Mountains of Waste Turned into Priceless Embankment," and concluded with an account of the Christlike leader ordering...
...dogs at Yankee Stadium, been carried by cheering students around the Princeton campus and appeared on the Tonight Show. Though none of that ensures affection and all those memories are distant, someone who spent his honeymoon in New York City knows at least a little of America. Kim Jong Il, by comparison, is famous as the one leader who may never have met an American. And, being unable to put a face to his enemy, seems much more liable to set his cross hairs...
Speculation about Kim's future has grown rapidly over recent days. First, anti-Kim Jong Il leaflets appeared around the diplomatic quarter in well- policed Pyongyang. Then an official radio broadcast ostensibly supported Kim's succession as the national leader but may have dropped a hint of a possible power struggle. If the succession "failed to be resolved correctly," it warned, "acts of betrayal by ambitious people" could bring disaster to the party and the revolution. Finally, Japanese press reports said Kim had turned down an invitation to Beijing...
...South Korean government insists such evidence, ambiguous as it is, points to trouble in the North. "It has heightened our suspicions," says a senior official in Seoul, "that something is going wrong for Kim Jong Il." Seoul may be genuinely worried about Kim Jong Il's stability or may be trying to rock the boat in Pyongyang...
...Jong Il's power is threatened, it is more likely to be by a palace coup than by popular rebellion. One rival power center could be the million- man armed forces, commanded by Defense Minister O Jin U. Other potential rebels might be ambitious members of Kim's own family: his stepmother Kim Song Ae; his uncle, Vice President Kim Yong Ju; or his half brother Kim Pyong...