From Foreign Policy Blog:
Reports surfaced yesterday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is under hospital care (again), after Kim's health took a turn for the worse last month. It's unclear whether he's been replaced by a body double, but suspicions run rampant:
In April NightWatch presented side-by-side images of Chubby Kim and Cadaverous Kim published by the North Koreans within a few days of each other. The latest image shows a man whose physiology is in-between the others, but whose left arm is straight down and never moves in the 66 second clip. It might be Kim but only his handlers would know.
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My Comment: The focus is on Kim Jong Il, but it is the North Korean Communist Party and its police state bureaucracy that controls the country. If he dies tomorrow, they will just have someone else in the seat .... his son, some General .... it makes no difference. The Communist Party will still continue, nuclear tests will still be done, and missiles will be test fired over the Sea of Japan.