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The rulers of the Hermit Kingdom allegedly profit from selling opium and running a black market in weapons technology, pushing missiles and nuclear know-how on the likes of Syria and Pakistan. It has been widely reported that the North Koreans make additional ill-gotten gains from counterfeiting passports and currency. Some of this may be exaggerated. It could be, for instance, that North Korea merely peddles bogus $100 bills that are made in China. But there is no doubt that control of the government in Pyongyang is a rich, if tainted, prize. While roughly a third of the population is malnourished, the rulers can divvy up a $40 billion economy that draws on North Korea's plentiful natural resources, including gold. The question is, who gets the gold?</p> <p>Succession is always a tricky subject in totalitarian states. In the case of North Korea, a bizarre world shrouded in secrecy, it is a source of urgent fascination for the country's neighbors and for the United States, especially since the prize includes control over nuclear weapons and, possibly, the eventual capacity to launch them on Tokyo—or Hawaii.</p> <p>The current ruler, Kim Jong Il, seems to be tottering. He reportedly suffered a stroke a year ago, and may be ill with cancer as well. At 68, he rarely appears in public, and when he does he looks frail and dazed. Because nothing is certain about North Korea, the true state of his health is still debated in the intelligence community, with some officials, who requested anonymity when discussing sensitive in-formation, arguing that Kim is not as ill as advertised. Nonetheless, he does seem to be worried about passing power to one of his three sons.</p> <div class="ad"> <div class="mediumRectangle"><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> placeAd2(commercialNode,'bigbox',false,'') </script></div></div> <p>None of them seems remotely ready for the job. They do not appear to be self-indulgent sadists, like Saddam Hussein's evil progeny, Uday and Qusay. They've apparently inherited their father's more benign, if eccentric, tastes for things Western. Kim, also known as the Dear Leader, has boasted to guests that he owns 20,000 movies, and he once instructed his ambassador to the United Nations to obtain a copy of <em>Sudden Death,</em> starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, who is said to be the Dear Leader's film hero. The North Korean ruler's sons variously worship Armani, NBA stars, Eric Clapton, and Disneyland. The third son, Kim Jong Un, is the most mysterious. That may be for his protection, as he seems to be the heir apparent. But his ability to hold on to power in a renegade dictatorship widely regarded as an international pariah is very uncertain. NEWSWEEK recently tracked the paths of Kim Jong Il's three sons. Their stories might seem comical if the stakes were not so large.</p> <p>All three are mindful of their lineage, which is the font of all power in North Korea. The patriarch, the "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung, earned his legitimacy by fighting imperialists—first the Japanese, then the Americans in the Korean War. His son the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, learned how to outmaneuver his rivals during a decades-long apprenticeship to power, at one point dispatching an ambitious half brother, Pyong Il, to be ambassador to Finland. In 1998, four years after his father's death, Kim strengthened his hold by declaring a <em>songun</em>, or "military first," policy, and sprinkling his generals with Rolexes and luxury cars, including Lexuses and BMWs.</p> <p>At least one of the Dear Leader's sons got his initial training in a posh Swiss school. In the fall of 1992, two boys, both looking a bit old for the fourth grade, were delivered by limousine at the International School of Berne (ISB), a few minutes away from the North Korean Embassy. (The Swiss are always discreet: an administrator for the ISB, declining to be identified, said the school had no idea the sons were anything more than the sons of North Korean diplomats. "We didn't ask a lot of questions," he said.) The two boys participated in the Christmas pageant (not speaking English, they held up signs) and by January had shed their blue polyester tracksuits for blue jeans.</p> <p>One of the two boys was Kim Jong Il's second son, Kim Jong Chol. The other, who looked especially old for his grade, was his bodyguard. Jong Chol was a basketball fanatic who loved the Chicago Bulls. But Jong Chol was not much of a player—a schoolmate recalled that he tended to jump to the side, not up, while making a shot—and it was the bodyguard who made the ISB school team. Jong Chol, who went by the cover name Pak Chol, appears to have been a reserved, gentle boy. Bits of his poetry were contained in a collection of student work. One, written when he was a sixth or seventh grader in the mid-'90s, and provided to NEWSWEEK by someone connected to the school, is called "My Ideal World." It begins: "If I had my ideal world I would not allow weapons and atom bombs anymore. I would destroy all terrorists with the Hollywood star Jean-Claude Van Damme. I would make people stop taking drugs…" He wrote a somewhat chilling short story called "My Father Was a Ghost," in which his father haunts him by pretending to be a spirit.</p> <p>By some accounts, his father regarded him as too soft to take power.</p> <p>It was once thought that the eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, was first in line. But in 2001, Jong Nam was detained in Tokyo for using a fake Dominican passport. He was trying to visit Tokyo Disneyland. Overweight and suspected of being diabetic, Jong Nam has since told reporters that he has no interest in politics and seems more concerned about acquiring, or at least wearing, bling. 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What a remake that would be with these three trapped and disfunctional kids, huh? </p> </div> </li> <li class="top-level"> <ul class="comment-options right"> <li> <a id="reply_1086080" class="reply" href="javascript:void(0);" name="anchor_1086080">Reply</a> </li> <li class="last"> <a id="report_1086080" class="report" href="javascript:void(0);">Report Abuse</a> </li> </ul> <h6>Posted By: zeravan @ 07/18/2009 11:56:20 PM</h6> <div class="post-content"> <p>Totalitarian regimes have their own ways to capture power by different methods.North korea is one of most complex state in southest Asia, it has history of isloation and aggessive politics because it has not many choice in international politics game, i think that any change it this state will be difficult . 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