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China-Japan-Koreas
Book Details Frank Comments from Kim Jong-il's Eldest Son
2012-01-11
Dang, is everyone in the Kim family an XXL?
A collection of candid e-mails and interviews with late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's eldest son Jong-nam will be published in Japan on Jan. 20, the Kyodo news agency reported last Friday.

Kim exchanged the e-mails with Yoji Komi, an editor of the Tokyo Shimbun. They began writing to each other after Komi ran into Kim at Beijing International Airport in 2004. The Japanese journalist later interviewed Kim for a total of seven hours in Beijing and Macau last year.

In one e-mail sent after his father's funeral this month, Kim Jong-nam criticizes the third-generation hereditary power succession in the North. Commenting on the leadership under his younger brother Suet Face Jong-un who became new North Korean leader, he writes, "The existing power group will take over, putting the young successor up as a symbolic figurehead."

Kim Jong-nam describes Kim Jong-il as a "strict and affectionate" father. He claims Kim Jong-il once said, "I won't hand power to my child."
As in most everything else, he lied...
Posted by:Steve White

#2  Looks like the fellow is almost big enough to burn diesel.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2012-01-11 21:20  

#1  Fat bear? Wiki entry: In May 2001, Kim Jong-nam was arrested on arrival at New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport), accompanied by two women and a four-year old boy identified as his son. He was traveling on a forged Dominican Republic passport using a Chinese alias, Pang Xiong, which could mean "fat bear". Kim Jong-nam was reportedly wearing a white shirt and dark blazer along with sunglasses and a gold chain. After being detained for several days, he was deported, on the instructions of the Japanese government, to the People's Republic of China. Kim Jong-nam apparently told his questioners that he was in Japan to visit Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, also near Tokyo. The incident caused Kim Jong-il to cancel a planned visit to China because of the embarrassment to both countries.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-01-11 13:08  

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