AH.com Challenge Kim Sul-Song next leader of north Korea.

Okay would it be even remotely possible for Kim Jong-il's Daughter to be proclaimed the next leader of north korea instead of Kim Jong-un?
 
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I like Ynnead's idea. Or Kim Jong Un could just prove himself to be ditheringly incompetent and reckless, so he gets ditched and Sul Song is picked to be the Kim figurehead while a group of experienced senior leaders makes the real decisions.

IIRC, KJI’s eldest son was originally supposed to be the successor, until his little trip to Disneyland threw a wrench in all that.
 
Actually, it's arguable that was an excuse--Kim Jong-nam's mother's family was filled with defectors, so he was always a little more suspect than his father would have liked. That said--don't think Jong-nam won't have an effect on things. I tend to imagine there's a reason China trots him out every now and then. And that reason is to remind DPRK that if China ever needs to invade, they've got someone to put on the throne...
 
Actually, it's arguable that was an excuse--Kim Jong-nam's mother's family was filled with defectors, so he was always a little more suspect than his father would have liked. That said--don't think Jong-nam won't have an effect on things. I tend to imagine there's a reason China trots him out every now and then. And that reason is to remind DPRK that if China ever needs to invade, they've got someone to put on the throne...

I had no idea. Wow, that's...huh. Very interesting.
 
I like Ynnead's idea. Or Kim Jong Un could just prove himself to be ditheringly incompetent and reckless, so he gets ditched and Sul Song is picked to be the Kim figurehead while a group of experienced senior leaders makes the real decisions.
That set up makes the most sense.

IIRC, KJI’s eldest son was originally supposed to be the successor, until his little trip to Disneyland threw a wrench in all that
Trip to Disneyland > Leadership of North Korea.
 
I am of the opinion that no matter where Kim Jong Il is, a person in the employ of the Peoples Republic of China close by ready to take matters into there own hands if he starts to go off the reservation so to speak. I can the the PRC having his son available to take over in a jiffy. As to his daughter I think that the society itself would not look kindly toward a female "Glorious Leader".
 
I am of the opinion that no matter where Kim Jong Il is, a person in the employ of the Peoples Republic of China close by ready to take matters into there own hands if he starts to go off the reservation so to speak.

Actually, Kim Jong-Il probably hasn't been running things for awhile, if the fact that every project he started up at the start of his reign to make North Korea slightly less insular and insane was ended shortly after his stroke. The man with the power right now is likely Chang Sung-taek, who, by an amazing coincidence, is Kim Jong-Un's uncle. This is a bad thing, because, as the world is starting to realize, while Kim Jong-Il is crazy like a fox, Chang Sung-taek seems to be just plain crazy.
 
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