Demoting Kim Jong-Il: A Brand-protection Strategy? by Bradley K. Martin
There are suggestions that the personality cult is being downsized. Assuming that’s happening, was Kim Jong-il pressured to permit it or did he decide on his own?
China had been complaining since the death of Mao and the fall of the Gang of Four about North Korea’s continuing adherence to an extravagant personality cult. Deng Xiaoping himself is said to have criticized a gold-plated statue of Kim Il-sung. Softening the personality cult now could be seen as perhaps partially intended to play to Chinese concerns.
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North Korea's military, the power behind the throne, is getting worried about the possibility of a death bed reformation from Kim Jong Il. They want to get Kim Jong Il's two sons from his politically reliable wife ready in case Kim Jong Il starts warming up too much to the south and has an unexpected heart attack.
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