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The usual disclaimers apply to this post like all the other postings.
In the last posting, I made a feeble attempt at trying to imagine bottom-up dissent and the problems that it could cause for Kim Jong Il if he were alive. All along, I have been doing possibilities in the event something goes wrong if he were alive. …

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In the last part of this series, I really jumped off the cliff in the speculation game. Chances are, I will probably look at this later and shake my head wondering why I wrote such a thing. Therefore, the usual disclaimers apply to this posting, as well as all the other postings.
How would Kim Jong Il react to …

I guess it is a good time to take a break on the wild speculation and try my hand at another oddity. This time, it is yet more speculation, because I have been having a rough time trying to find some of the places in this particular oddity that happens to be an area in Pyongyang. This is the so-called …

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The usual disclaimers apply in this posting. This is part of the series where I start really guessing. I suppose it is because it may get boring hearing the same stuff re-hashed when Pyongyang watchers know the back story as it is. Finally, this is where in a few years I can look back at this and see …

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Connecting regime change hazard models with political psychoanalysis a possibility?
In the last part of this series, I attempted to lay out what is going on now in North Korea and started to investigate how Kim Jong Il thinks. This is not an easy task, because I am not an expert on the subject. It is still kind of …

Perhaps one of the most foolhardy things to discuss and predict is the reunification of Korea. I failed to address this in my last attempt at this piece, and would like to make this distinction very clear before I even begin. The biggest challenge is the many variables involved in the equation. With all of these variables in play, it …

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong -il has not been looking well at all these days. Resembling 85 than 68, all eyes seem to be focused on a gaunt little man trying to hold on to his kingdom.
His health problems are a closely guarded secret as his political decisions, which is making Pyongyang watchers nervous. With only rumors and unconfirmed reports …

Confirmations in North Korea is nearly non-existent, and even if there was a confirmation, it is usually smart to question that as well. Therefore, in the world of rumors regarding Kim Jong Un and his supposed role and/or authority in the Kim regime seem to be front and center? Granted, it is not so much now, but the questions still …

One of the last hard-line communist-based societies on the planet, North Korea steadfastly holds on to power despite the zombie like status of the economy and unsure status of the regime’s hold on power. For about a decade or so, predictions of the regime’s collapse have been discussed, and for a while, there was a good chance with the famine …

Speculation abounds about the health of the ever-reclusive leader of the DPRK. As usual, this leads to who may control the country if this is indeed the case. Naturally, as with anything North Korea, speculation is all we have, no matter who says otherwise including “intelligence sources”. How many times have these so-called sources been wrong? Too many to count …