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| Kim Jong Il Died |
A woman dressed in mourning the state television announcer said, with tears in his eyes from physical and mental revision of the ruler. A few hours after the first death notification referred KCNA Kim's youngest son, Jong Un as "a great successor." South Korea said its forces on alert. The Japanese Cabinet met for a crisis meeting. The fear of a power vacuum in the communist-ruled country also impacted the stock markets. The international community is preparing for some time that nuclear and missile programs of North Korea worries.
Kim had suffered a stroke in 2008, but apparently largely recovered from it again. An autopsy confirmed the diagnosis of heart attack on Sunday, reported on KCNA. There was a funeral committee with Kim Jong Un was formed at the tip. The insular country had prepared more recently the handover of power to Kim's youngest son, who is a relatively young age from their late 20s. In recent years he has close political and military posts had been transferred.
In North Korea it would come to huge expressions of grief. The Chinese state television weeping people were seen in the streets of the North Korean capital Pyongyang. Otherwise, the public life seemed largely to take its normal course. The state propaganda called Kim Jong Il, who took power in 1994 by his father Kim Il Sung, always as a "beloved leader" and made him a demigod. The state funeral was scheduled for 28 Scheduled in December.
During the term of Kim Jong Il, the country slipped into a severe economic crisis. A large proportion of the population lives in abject poverty. Again and again it comes to famine. International troubled the country with the development of nuclear weapons and numerous missile tests. 2006 and 2009 shocked the country of the world community with the announcement of two nuclear tests, and it remains unclear whether the military actually already in possession of an explosive bomb is.
Fears of a power vacuum in Pyongyang and a demonstration of the strength of the North Korean military could collapse the stock market in Seoul. The Kospi benchmark index closed more than three percent in the red. The fear of a political crisis in North Korea and investors stayed away from the German stock market: The benchmark index lost 0.5 percent in the first minutes of 5675 meters. The death of Kim Jong Il kindled the risk aversion of investors, many of them thus resorted to the world reserve currency, the dollar index rose by 0.3 percent partly on 80.49 points.
EXPERT POWER STRUGGLE FOR STRESSES LIKELY
"The probability is high that it is in North Korea into a power struggle at the top," North Korea expert said Chung Tae Young of South Korea's Institute for National Unification. In recent years, and Kim Jong Il's sister and her husband were appointed to important positions in politics and the military.
U.S. President Barack Obama advised in a telephone conversation with his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak on the situation on the Korean peninsula. The Defense Ministry in Seoul said that there is as yet no signs of unusual troop movements in the north. Lee called on South Koreans to remain calm and continue with their daily lives. The Japanese prime minister Yoshihiko Noda said, according to a government spokesman during the crisis meeting of the Cabinet, all Ministers should be prepared for the unexpected. As the last ally of North Korea, China raised its grief expressed. The Foreign Ministry in Beijing said that China was confident that the North Korean people remain united. The People's Republic intends to use its friendly relations with North Korea in order to maintain stability in the region.
Experts were less confident. "If someone had asked what would be the most likely scenario, collapse under the regime in North Korea would be, the answer would have been up yesterday: the sudden death of Kim Jung Il," Victor Cha said the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "And now, this scenario has occurred, and no one knows what will happen now."
