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One son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is too busy playing video games to take over the country, according to a video game surprise found among the reams of U.S. government cables disseminated by the Wikileaks organization.
In a September 2008 cable, a member of the U.S. consulate in Shanghai writes to the U.S. State Department, assessing the future prospects of the North Korean nation whose iron-fisted leader had been rumored to be in ill health.
(Redaction in the original Wikileak; emphasis added by Kotaku)
The cable's author surmises that none of the sons would succeed the father, allowing the country's military leaders to assume control. In the years since, though, Kim Jong-Il has appeared to promote his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, who is in his late 20s, as the next leader, not only flouting that analysis here but suggesting that youth is less a detrimental quality in a new leader than a video game fixation.
In 2005, the New York Times reported that Kim Jong-chol may have also been viewed as "too effeminate" to take over the Communist country.
The heir apparent, Kim Jong-un, is featured in the upcoming 2011 video game Homefront as the leader of a resurgent and unified Korea that invades the United States.
This cable is one of some 250,000 released by the Wikileaks organization, whose controversial leader Julian Assange was arrested in London earlier this week due to allegations of sexual assault.
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I'm going to guess he is a starcraft player. be careful who you cuss out on that game folks
In a September 2008 cable, a member of the U.S. consulate in Shanghai writes to the U.S. State Department, assessing the future prospects of the North Korean nation whose iron-fisted leader had been rumored to be in ill health.
(Redaction in the original Wikileak; emphasis added by Kotaku)
The cable's author surmises that none of the sons would succeed the father, allowing the country's military leaders to assume control. In the years since, though, Kim Jong-Il has appeared to promote his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, who is in his late 20s, as the next leader, not only flouting that analysis here but suggesting that youth is less a detrimental quality in a new leader than a video game fixation.
In 2005, the New York Times reported that Kim Jong-chol may have also been viewed as "too effeminate" to take over the Communist country.
The heir apparent, Kim Jong-un, is featured in the upcoming 2011 video game Homefront as the leader of a resurgent and unified Korea that invades the United States.
This cable is one of some 250,000 released by the Wikileaks organization, whose controversial leader Julian Assange was arrested in London earlier this week due to allegations of sexual assault.
more here
I'm going to guess he is a starcraft player. be careful who you cuss out on that game folks
