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Propagandists tell North Koreans that supreme leader's son is a successor in the making

Propagandists tell North Koreans that supreme leader's son is a successor in the making

Youth is not considered an asset in the nation, where mandatory lectures have billed Kim Jong Eun, Kim Jong Il's twentysomething son, as a political breath of air. In a region where Confucian thinking about seniority still holds sway, where political life generally begins at 50, it isn’t easy to sell the public on a twentysomething who has never held a real job.

 

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