SKorea army on alert after North's military threat

[Humble Janitor]

Originally Posted by Dantheman62

NKorea's Kim nominates third son as successor: reportTime is GMT + 8 hours
Posted: 15-Jan-2009 16:41 hrsA 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.