From The L.A. Times:Some intelligence is smuggled out by groups and individuals these days, but the main thing outsiders know about the reclusive regime is that they know nothing.
Reporting from Beijing -- For months, North Korea watchers have played a frustrating guessing game: Is leader Kim Jong Il healthy? Incapacitated? Or even dead?
Many speculate that the reclusive 66-year-old has been sidelined by a stroke, while the government in Pyongyang continues to release undated photos showing an active Kim, sporting his trademark bouffant, at public events.
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My Comment: When Kim Jong-il's father died, the same inward approach was conducted by the North Korean Government until Kim Jong-il assumed power. One can only assume that there is a power realignment occurring in North Korea now.