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(“On the spot guidance”: an enfeebled Bam Bam plays shuffleboard with his new residential model dinkytoy)

September promises to be a humdinger of a “historical” month over in DPR Korea according to recent a South Korean news report.

Bam Bam, aka Kim Jong-il, the country’s much-maligned headman and pictured above waving around his oversized plaything, will be convening an all-senior Korean Worker’s Party (KWP) Congress in the autumn. The last time this happened was in 1966. Something must be up.

You think?

The rarer-than-the-Holy-Grail fall confab, according to ROK experts, will be an attempt by said ailing North Korean leader pygmy fascist to shore up his hardline ideological support for the eventual leadership succession which all NK observers now claim is a foregone conclusion. Transfer of “hereditary power” to Kim’s Swiss-educated youngest son, Kim Jong-un (Eun), aka the “Youth Captain” is happening, and sooner than we think.

Jong-un, the heir apparent, is alleged to be a dead ringer for his daddy-o’s temperament and affect. The apple of Kim’s fatherly eye is currently being fast-track groomed to take up the cudgel in defense of the oft-maligned nuclear peninsular statelet as Kim steps down due to health reasons sometime during the end of this year (that is, if untimely death doesn’t relieve the planet of his rancorous presence sooner).

(Is this Kim Jong-un? Anyone?)

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China Gazers the world over are well-acquainted with the “Deng miracle” which resulted in the PRC’s SEZs (Special Economic Zones) during the late 1970s Reform and Opening Period. Shenzhen, formerly a gated community, was the first of more than half a dozen prominent eastern seaboard havens for industry and market exploitation and experimentation which eventually became the de facto model for Chinese heavy industrialization along the nation’s entire right coast.

Here’s where I’m going with this idea…

China’s more than three decades of experience with the “port city as innovation enclave” concept should be next launched inside North Korea, as Kim Jong il hands off the conch shell to his youngest son Kim Jong-un (or eun). April 12th, for those who don’t know, marks the Great Leader’s birthday (Kim the Father, that is), and rumors are positively swirling in the Korean blogosphere boasting how it will also serve as Jong-un’s coming-out party, when his poster will finally be rolled out across the entire DPRK and to the rest of the world, adorning murals, newspapers, and subway station marquees.

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Pictured above is none other than Kim Jong-nam. Ain’t he cute?

Jong-nam is Bam Bam’s (Kim Jong-il’s) eldest offspring, son to his most precious concubine (and second “unofficial” wife) Song Hye-rim. His name had been mentioned in past times as one of three potential successors to the Kim Jong-il meritocracy in the event of the latter’s eventual “abdication” or should the dictator suddenly pop off in the middle of the night or be taken out in a kind of Uday and Qusay Hussein surgical strike.

Jong-nam, incidentally, is fluent in at least five languages, including English and Japanese, having been educated in Geneva. He is well-travelled, married with children, and is referred to inside North Korean circles as the “Young General.”

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