There's not much info about him, but he's in his mid 20s, at the oldest, went to an international school in switzerland, and likes to drink and smoke and fight and have sex, just like Dad. He loves weapons, likes Mercedes Benzs, and hates Japan, so he's the obvious choice. The fact that his mum was a Japanese citizen, yet of Korean descent, adds to the complexity. China would prefer North Korea be ruled by a committee but Un, just now, is the annointed one; if he can stay alive. NK is a hard 'system of ascent'. You never know when your trusted Deputy is going to knife you in the Forum, just like in Rome, or in Australia; it's just that in North Korean royalty they use, like in Rome, real knives.
He'll have the same authentic legitimacy as the King of Saudi Arabia, or Jordan, or Dubai, or the Emirates etc so is already a 'world leader' in that real-power sense, with the 4th largest land army, even if poorly equipped, in the world. A million soldiers is a lot. A paramilitary of an extra 2 million is a lot too.It will be interesting to see what he does, being so young, quite bright, and fearing no one.It will be important for all of us to know what he does when 'the blowtorch is applied to the belly' of resource rich, densely populated, ideologically tectonic, North Asia. China will stand by him, if he survives. China and North Korea really are Bloody Brothers in Arms always. You can bank on that.
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