DPRK leader suggests his third son as successor in KWP
15.01.2009, 11.45
SEOUL, January 15 (Itar-Tass) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has suggested his third son, Kim Jong Ung, as his successor and sent a directive promoting him to the leadership of the ruling Korean Workers' Party (KWP), the Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday referring to sources that are well informed about the state of affairs in North Korea.
The present leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will be 67 this year. He is known to have been suffering from cardio-vascular diseases and diabetes. Washington and Seoul believe that in August last year Kim Jong Il had a stroke is now recuperating, Yonhap writes.
Kim Jong Ung is now 25 years of age. He had been born by the North Korean leader's third wife, Ko Yong Hee, who died of breast cancer in 2004.
Approximately on January 8, this year, Kim Jong Il sent a directive in which he named Jong Ung as his successor in the leadership of the KWP, one of the sources told Yonhap on condition of anonymity.
The present North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was 32 years old when his father and founder of the DPRK, Kim Il Sung, had announced him as his successor at the KWP Congress in February 1974.
The nomination of Jong Ung is viewed in North Korea as a surprise, even by the memebrs of the ruling party, Yonhap reports.
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SEOUL, January 15 (Itar-Tass) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has suggested his third son, Kim Jong Ung, as his successor and sent a directive promoting him to the leadership of the ruling Korean Workers' Party (KWP), the Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday referring to sources that are well informed about the state of affairs in North Korea.
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