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...looking at the moon through the wrong end of a telescope. Not because they're not smart enough to look through the proper end, but because North Korea is so sealed off from the rest of the world that the wrong end is all they've got. The North Korean government - in the person of 80-year-old Kim Yong Nam, ostensibly Kim's second in command - said on Sept. 10 that there was "no problem" with the Dear Leader. Still, a senior South Korean intelligence analyst told TIME that "something strange has clearly happened. We know Kim Jong...
...indeed incapacitated, dying or already dead, what might that that mean for the Korean Peninsula, for 60 years now one of the most heavily militarized neighborhoods on the planet? Korea watchers insist his demise is unlikely to mean the collapse of the North Korean regime, at least in the short run. Regime change is something the North's border mates most emphatically do not want to see. As the analysts at Control Risks Group in London put it, Pyongyang's "brutal authoritarianism may be repugnant, but its unraveling would raise questions the North's neighbors would much rather postpone...
...news is that North Korea is again struggling with food shortages and possible famine, a problem that could worsen if Kim is debilitated. "When it comes to allocation of resources, Kim is the one who decides," says Cheong Seong Chang, director of Inter-Korean Relations Studies at the Sejong Institute near Seoul. "Now, different players may try to grab a bigger piece of the limited resources." The ironic result: without Kim, "the food situation for the North Korean people will get worse, heightening the crisis from within...
...North Korea Dear Leader in Decline? After Kim Jong Il failed to attend a parade marking the country's 60th anniversary, rumors began circulating that the secretive North Korean leader's health was deteriorating. State media have not reported a public appearance by Kim since Aug. 14, though Western intelligence officials say the 66-year-old dictator has manipulated such reports before. White House officials could not confirm the rumors but said they are monitoring the "opaque" nation amid stalled talks over its nuclear program. The Dear Leader assumed power in 1994 after the death of his father, North Korea...
...news is, North Korea is again struggling with food shortages and possible famine, a problem that could worsen if Kim is debilitated. "When it comes to allocation of resources, Kim is the one who decides," says Cheong Seong-Chang, director of Inter-Korean Relations Studies at the Sejong Institute. "Now, different players may try to grab a bigger piece of the limited resources." The ironic result: Without Kim, "the food situation for the North Korean people will get worse, heightening the crisis from within...