[ti:North Korea Clears Way for a Third-Generation Kim as Leader ]
[ar:Doug Johnson]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:06.52]in VOA Special English.
[00:09.26]Little is known inside
[00:11.66]or outside North Korea
[00:13.95]about the young man
[00:15.49]who could become the next leader.
[00:18.48]Kim Jong Un studied
[00:21.57]in Switzerland
[00:22.61]but even his age is a mystery.
[00:25.30]He is around twenty-seven,
[00:27.69]the youngest of the three
[00:29.53]known sons of Kim Jong Il.
[00:32.81]The North Korean leader
[00:34.70]is sixty-eight and believed
[00:36.84]to be in poor health.
[00:38.34]This week, North Korea
[00:41.72]published the first official photo
[00:44.26]of Kim Jong Un after a meeting
[00:47.20]of the ruling Workers' Party.
[00:49.14]Some observers had expected him
[00:52.62]to be named
[00:53.57]as the country's next leader.
[00:55.31]But North Korea expert Gordon Flake
[00:59.64]at the Mansfield Foundation
[01:02.67]in Washington says
[01:04.41]the process is not that simple.
[01:07.05]GORDON FLAKE: "What we're seeing here
[01:08.25]is not the succession.
[01:09.09]What we're seeing here
[01:10.19]is the first public indications
[01:12.48]of the beginning of the process
[01:15.26]of potential succession.
[01:16.66]But Kim Jong Il is still in power.
[01:18.75]And so this really is not
[01:20.69]an institutional rule.
[01:21.63]This is a personal family rule."
[01:25.07]Kim Jong Il came to power
[01:27.65]after his father, North Korea's
[01:30.44]founder Kim Il Sung,
[01:32.48]died in nineteen ninety-four.
[01:35.37]This week, Kim Jong Un
[01:38.95]and his aunt,
[01:40.05]the sister of Kim Jong Il,
[01:42.44]became four-star generals
[01:44.92]with little military experience.
[01:48.22]State media later announced
[01:50.86]the appointment of Kim Jong Un
[01:53.14]to the Workers'
[01:53.99]Party Central Committee.
[01:55.89]He was also named to the powerful
[01:58.93]Central Military Commission.
[02:01.47]There, he joins Jang Song Taek,
[02:05.30]who is considered second
[02:07.19]in power after Kim Jong Il.
[02:09.88]Jang Song Taek is married
[02:12.71]to Kim Kyong Hui,
[02:14.90]the leader's sister.
[02:16.54]North Korea specialist
[02:19.03]Andrei Lankov says
[02:21.07]Kim Jong Il seems to want
[02:23.46]the couple to help prepare
[02:25.31]his young son for leadership.
[02:27.30]Then, in case
[02:29.84]of Kim Jong Il's sudden death,
[02:32.38]he says, they will become
[02:34.37]"sort of prince-regent
[02:36.41]and princess-regent."
[02:38.20]ANDREI LANKOV: "That is,
[02:39.00]people who will be running
[02:40.59]the country and will
[02:41.60]be making actual decisions."
[02:43.14]Yet some North Korea experts say
[02:45.54]Jang Song Taek was not
[02:47.63]always so trusted.
[02:49.02] In two thousand four,
[02:51.26]he disappeared from public
[02:53.55]for a year-and-a-half.
[02:55.09]Much of what experts know
[02:58.83]or think they know
[03:00.42]about North Korea comes
[03:02.91]from North Koreans
[03:04.90]who fled the country.
[03:06.19]Some experts think
[03:09.39]this week's political appointments
[03:11.29]could create tensions
[03:13.43]with North Korea's aging generals.
[03:16.41]One theory is that the military
[03:20.39]could object if the ruling party
[03:23.23]looks for friendship
[03:25.12] with South Korea to help
[03:27.82]save North Korea's economy.
[03:30.21]Another theory is that
[03:33.20]Kim Jong Un might try to build power
[03:36.54]by dismissing opponents
[03:38.78]and inciting South Korea.
[03:41.81]But on Thursday military officials
[03:45.66]from the two Koreas held their
[03:47.99]first talks in two years.
[03:50.38]And on Friday the two countries
[03:53.07]agreed to hold more reunions
[03:55.76]of families separated
[03:58.10]since the Korean War.
[03:59.99]The last reunions
[04:02.03]took place a year ago.
[04:04.02]The talks are the latest signs
[04:07.75]of improved relations
[04:09.64]since a South Korean navy ship
[04:12.24] sank in March.
[04:13.33]Forty-six sailors died.
[04:15.92]An international investigation
[04:18.66]blamed North Korea
[04:20.75]but it denied any involvement.
[04:23.88]In Washington,
[04:26.38]a Defense Department spokesman,
[04:28.62]Colonel David Lapan,
[04:30.51]said leaders in Pyongyang
[04:33.25]could change, but American
[04:35.44]objectives remain the same.
[04:37.18]Those objectives are
[04:39.52]for North Korea to stop
[04:41.31]developing nuclear weapons
[04:43.30]and to look for peace
[04:45.49]and stability
[04:46.69]on the Korean peninsula.
[04:48.78]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:50.67]in VOA Special English.
[04:53.26] I'm Doug Johnson.
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