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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI
Kim Jong-un has not been seen in public for more than 2 weeks.
Speculation and rumour about Kim Jong-un’s health might total up to nothing, but concerns about who may prosper him in the short or long term will always be there. The BBC talked to analysts about the competitors and whether history is on their side.
A male member of the Kim family has supervised of North Korea ever since its starting by Kim Il-sung in 1948 – and the folklore of this family runs deep throughout society.
Propaganda about its achievement begins for people prior to they can even read: pre-schoolers sing a tune called: “I wish to see our leader Kim Jong-un.”
So how can you think of a North Korea without this symbolic and political figure at the top? How would elites arrange themselves, in addition to society as a whole?
The easy response is: we don’t understand. More interestingly, they do not know either. They have actually never needed to do it.
There has actually always been a Kim …
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Kim Il-sung is the creator of North Korea and his boy Kim Jong-il took control of.
Paektu is the sacred and mythologised mountain where Kim Il-sung is stated to have waged guerrilla war and where Kim Jong-il was apparently born.
There has actually constantly been a Kim at the ideological heart of the country.
The three remaining Kims
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Kim Yo-jong, as the only lady in the top management, has stimulated fascination.
The are 3 Kims who could potentially be associated with the political make-up of North Korea if Kim Jong-un were to disappear. They all deal with constraints in carrying on household rule.
The very first is Kim Yo-jong, Kim