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Originally Posted by Dantheman62
  NKorea's Kim nominates third son as successor: report Time is GMT + 8 hours
Posted: 15-Jan-2009 16:41 hrs A Korean Central News Agency picture shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (centre) inspecting a tractor plant. The North Korean leader has nominated his third son as successor and informed the ruling communist party leadership of his choice, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported
The North suffered a full-scale famine in the 1990s which killed hundreds of thousands of people, and severe food shortages persist despite foreign aid.
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Seoul's state-run Korea Rural Economic Institute said Thursday the North would run short of one million tonnes of food this year. — AFP |
The timing is suspect. Perhaps Kim Jong Il knows something that we all don't know?
I wish for peace among both Koreas and we should send positive energy that way.