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US source: North Korean leader in grave danger after surgery
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UNCjigga
Lifer
It’ll have to be his sister. I think he killed anyone else who remotely had a chance to lead.
SteveGrabowski
Diamond Member
Wonder if there will be civil war or if the military will try to take over if the fat bastard is dead.
RamIt
Senior member
More likely they are sick of his fat ass and poisoned him.
So either work with SK to open up the country or more close and China depending. Either way good luck to their people.
NostaSeronx
Diamond Member
Not up to date on laws... but if they follow the rules then the succession/inheritance rules of NK;
1. Spouse, sons and daughters, adopted children, stepchildren, unborn
children, parents, adoptive parents, and step-parents;
2. Grandchildren, grandparents, brothers and sisters, the adopted brothers and
sisters, and step-brothers and sisters;
3. Blood relatives within the fourth degree of kinship.
Which is important to kill off other same ranking members;
If there are two or more inheritors of the same rank, their shares of the inheritance shall be equally divided (Text, Art. 19). However, the portion of a person who has supported the person dying intestate during their life or a person of small income who is incapable of living for herself or himself may be increased and the portion of a person who has the ability to support but has not performed that duty may be decreased (Proviso, Art. 19).
The news so far has point to the wife and the sister acquiring political clout. Also, men apparently in modern leaks are considered useless other than defending the home. So, a push for a matriarchal inheritance, do to the overall weirdness over there, might be feasible.
www.cnbc.com
=> Women earn more than 70 percent of household income in North Korea, mainly as traders in the informal markets that have proliferated in recent years, research by the South Korean government-run Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) found.
“We North Koreans say men are fighting on the socialism front but women are fighting in the battle of life,” said a 26-year-old surnamed Jung who fled to South Korea in 2012 and regularly sends money north to support her mother’s gray-market business raising pigs and selling corn-based alcohol.
“There are no state provisions and my father has an unpaid job, which he must do almost as a duty,” said Jung, a college student in Seoul who asked that her full name not be used to protect her family members still in the North.
“If you want to live better up there, you’d better be a woman selling stuff in markets or marry a man who lives on bribes or taxes from these women at markets, or works for the regime’s trading firms,” said Kim Min-jung, a defector who runs a matchmaking service for 1,500 women who left the North.
“That points to how useless males are in terms of making money for their families,” she said.
With women holding more economic power, more of them are also seeking divorce, according to experts. The main reason cited is financial incompetence, according to a recent survey of 103 defectors by the Seoul-based Korean Bar Association.
The female takeover of North Korea’s main street economy is changing a paternalistic culture that considers the ideal women a stay-at-home wife.
While state media promotes institutional gender equality, society has long been dominated by men. Money is changing that.
“North Korea’s living standards depend on women’s business abilities and skills, not on the state. Women are replacing the role of the state via the market economy,” said Kim Eun-ju, who heads the Center for Korean Women and Politics in Seoul and regularly interviews recent defectors.
“Now men are even looking for potential wives in marketplaces,” she said.
Jung, the college student defector, said: “North Korean women are independent and strong but will get more so as the state can’t provide much for individuals.”
// Essentially, it would reflect the societal norm that has been occurring. Be oppressed long enough, then naturally it will trickle-up.
1. Spouse, sons and daughters, adopted children, stepchildren, unborn
children, parents, adoptive parents, and step-parents;
2. Grandchildren, grandparents, brothers and sisters, the adopted brothers and
sisters, and step-brothers and sisters;
3. Blood relatives within the fourth degree of kinship.
Which is important to kill off other same ranking members;
If there are two or more inheritors of the same rank, their shares of the inheritance shall be equally divided (Text, Art. 19). However, the portion of a person who has supported the person dying intestate during their life or a person of small income who is incapable of living for herself or himself may be increased and the portion of a person who has the ability to support but has not performed that duty may be decreased (Proviso, Art. 19).
The news so far has point to the wife and the sister acquiring political clout. Also, men apparently in modern leaks are considered useless other than defending the home. So, a push for a matriarchal inheritance, do to the overall weirdness over there, might be feasible.
In North Korea, men call the shots, women make the money
North Korea is a militarized, male-dominated society, but it is women who are making the money as the insular nation allows an unofficial market-based economy to take shape.
“We North Koreans say men are fighting on the socialism front but women are fighting in the battle of life,” said a 26-year-old surnamed Jung who fled to South Korea in 2012 and regularly sends money north to support her mother’s gray-market business raising pigs and selling corn-based alcohol.
“There are no state provisions and my father has an unpaid job, which he must do almost as a duty,” said Jung, a college student in Seoul who asked that her full name not be used to protect her family members still in the North.
“If you want to live better up there, you’d better be a woman selling stuff in markets or marry a man who lives on bribes or taxes from these women at markets, or works for the regime’s trading firms,” said Kim Min-jung, a defector who runs a matchmaking service for 1,500 women who left the North.
“That points to how useless males are in terms of making money for their families,” she said.
With women holding more economic power, more of them are also seeking divorce, according to experts. The main reason cited is financial incompetence, according to a recent survey of 103 defectors by the Seoul-based Korean Bar Association.
The female takeover of North Korea’s main street economy is changing a paternalistic culture that considers the ideal women a stay-at-home wife.
While state media promotes institutional gender equality, society has long been dominated by men. Money is changing that.
“North Korea’s living standards depend on women’s business abilities and skills, not on the state. Women are replacing the role of the state via the market economy,” said Kim Eun-ju, who heads the Center for Korean Women and Politics in Seoul and regularly interviews recent defectors.
“Now men are even looking for potential wives in marketplaces,” she said.
Jung, the college student defector, said: “North Korean women are independent and strong but will get more so as the state can’t provide much for individuals.”
// Essentially, it would reflect the societal norm that has been occurring. Be oppressed long enough, then naturally it will trickle-up.
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Hmm, how long before China 'liberates' them?
He listened to trump and took hydroxychloroquine to fight Covid19 to cause the heart issues. So thanks trump for the medical advise.
DrunkenSano
Diamond Member
There will definitely be a military coup if it's Kim's wife or sister that takes over. It'll be crazy and who knows what will happen if a coup happens.
wife sister? very game of thrones.
CNN is a reliable source, of course if you actually read the article you would have noticed that it was multi-sourced good journalism.
i'd say the big question is if he doesn't make it through, will it be his sister or the military that takes control?
According to this Bloomberg article, apart from his sister, the known possibilities are:
- He's believed to have gotten married in 2009 and had 3 children, but none of this is officially recognized. Although, any of Kim Jong Un's children couldn't be older than their teens at most, hardly an age for national leadership. Actually Wikipedia says Ri Sol-ju has been officially recognized as "respected first lady" since 2018.
- His only other sibling is a brother who hasn't been involved in politics at all
- A nephew, but that family has fallen out of favor (his father is in exile)
- He's believed to have gotten married in 2009 and had 3 children, but none of this is officially recognized. Although, any of Kim Jong Un's children couldn't be older than their teens at most, hardly an age for national leadership. Actually Wikipedia says Ri Sol-ju has been officially recognized as "respected first lady" since 2018.
- His only other sibling is a brother who hasn't been involved in politics at all
- A nephew, but that family has fallen out of favor (his father is in exile)
brycejones
Lifer
Your ass isn't speaking to you again? That seems to be the only source you consider reliable.
brycejones
Lifer
dank69
Lifer
Pretty sure it is already a shit show.
DrunkenSano
Diamond Member
Pretty much, it will just move from one shit show chapter to another.
blankslate
Diamond Member
An interesting situation if true...
could it be a Dr. Yueh situation?
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could it be a Dr. Yueh situation?
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