Jang Song Thaek

摘要

This dark horse might usurp power in the Hermit Kingdom.Who will be the next leader of militant and unstable North Korea? The current supremo, ailing Kim Jong Il, wants you to think his youngest acknowledged son, the chubby-cheeked Kim Jong Un, will follow him. Yet if the North's regime is a snake pit, then Jong Un is the hamster. Jong Il knows that, so he has entrusted his sister, Kim Kyong Hui, to protect Jong Un. Yet the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, despite the trappings of a communist state, is a deeply Confucian society. A woman leader would, in short, be considered unacceptable.