The life of Kim Jong Il

The story of Kim Jong Il is an almost unique case of how the successor of the formidable “master”, a representative of the second generation of the dictator, managed to retain power until his completely natural death. Kim Il Sung accomplished what Mao Zedong could not. Kim the son left his country as poor, as driven to complete numbness by merciless terror as his “great” father Kim Il Sung left him. True, now with an atomic explosive device. Now we’ll find out how right those who claim that possession of nuclear weapons makes any, even North Korean, leaders responsible are. But it is possible that Kim Jong Il’s heirs will assert themselves by promoting military hysteria and provocations. The Korean Peninsula could descend into war and chaos. The South Korean government, which has switched to round-the-clock operation and put its armed forces on alert, obviously does not rule out the worst option. And then no one will find it enough. Including Russia.