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Kim's Death Unlikely to Breed Chaos

Doomsday scenarios for North Korean succession farfetched

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 22, 2008 12:49 PM CDT

(Newser) – With Kim Jong Il conspicuously out of the public eye in recent months, some speculate that his death could shatter the North Korean government and precipitate humanitarian and possibly military crises. But the reality of succession, Philip Bowring writes in the International Herald Tribune, is...   Read full story »

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