Kim Jong Il or the “Great Leader” of North Korea has appointed his youngest son as the intelligence chief and the head of the country’s spy agency. This move would enable his son, Kim Jong Un to inherit the position of the “Great Leader” after Kim Jong Il.
South Korea’s Dong-a Ilbo newspaper stated that Kim Jong Il the member of the State Security Department to promote Kim Jong Un to the position of Chief of Intelligence. Jong Il also gifted foreign luxury cars to the high level officials as a token of his appreciation, that amounted to $80,000 per car. Kim told the official to guard his son with their lives, just as they have done for the Great Leader for all these years.
Kim Jong Un has been in-charge of the two U.S journalists who have been charged illegal border crossing and hostile acts and have been sentence to 12 years hard labor. The two journalists were arrested for the above mentioned charges from the China-North Korea border.
The State Security Department of North Korea is one of the main source of Kim Jong Il’s iron fist rule over North Korea. The main mission of this body is to keep surveillance on party officials, the military and civilians to ensure there is no chance of defection or an uprising against the regime. State Security Department also carries out covert missions overseas missions.
According to experts, Kim Jong Il has named his youngest son as the head of intelligence, to eliminate any possible opposition for father-to-son transfer of power. This would enable North Korea to further strengthen its border force with an additional 100,000 troops.
Pyongyang has already informed its diplomatic missions and other agencies about the naming of Kim Jong Un as the successor to Kim Jong Il. The current North Korean leader inherited the regime in the year 1994, when the founder of North Korea, Kim Il Sung passed away. In a statement Kim Jong Il said,
“Our revolution is winning victory after victory because the bloodline of the country’s self-reliance ideology has been succeeded through generations.”
Via AP.
