Kim Jong Un is going to want to prove himself very quickly. Rumor has it, he may be worse than his father. Either way, within the next few days he's going to want to show the world he is either a better man than his father, or a stronger one. Let's hope it's the former. I have family in South Korea.

meh, they'll stand down.
nothing to see here, just a dictator dead from "hard work!"

It makes me wonder why the N. Koreans haven't said how he died. Hope they don't put blame on an assassination or inside job.

All these current events posts... and no one questions his death.

I mean really really questions it. I don't know much about it, but in the troubling times of the world there is something more to this story than meets the eye.

Anyone have any ideas?

Geez, just occurred to me: what if SK decides now is the time to attack NK, and catch the young inexperienced son off guard? Or worse, what if the US decides this too and helps.

SK and Japan will be on alert because, as has been stated by all news agencies I think, this will send shock waves through NK.

No one really knows what the situation is in NK, and there is a possibility of a military coup.

This isn't like a nation electing a new head of state that the public and neighbors have gotten to know. This is a completely unknown situation in a nuclear armed state, a very dangerous prospect.

Anything could be happening in there, and their neighbors are right to be on alert and ready for anything until facts can be established and we know that the nation and its people are not going into complete anarchy.

Lets just hope they don't decide to honor his death with a 21 gun salute aimed south.
The young leader will need to show that he is more of a God than his father and really needs to get his people to believe in him.
Hence the neighbours preparing for the worse

You mean like a formal declaration for the end of hostilities and rolling up the barbed wire?

Bada boom bada bing......instant food aid, energy aid, and tech aid. Instant trade.

Thats what the good fellas would do.

From what I have been reading since this was announced for older stories and reports, -un has been the defacto leader in day to day stuff for quite awhile now anyway, so this was more a formal change of title than it was any sort of shock. I've actually been relieved to learn that. My first concern was a state of chaos within the DPRK Government by a death not fully prepared for. In that system and how it's so strongly formed around a single man, that is a real concerning thing. Apparently though....no such worries.

Now this Un sounds worse that Dad was in viciousness if some reports are to be believed...but then no reports are seemingly 100% reliable about anything, right down to the actual year this guy was born...so who knows.

I think he's more likely to extort Obama for food, fuel and other aid than he is to go to war once this initial period of transition and everyone adjusting to this new reality has passed, assuming it passes smoothly. He's been groomed for this for at least a year..maybe as many as 3 years. He's been right there to watch and learn the extortion game on the international level...so why screw with what works?

Originally posted by Deflagration

Anyone have any ideas?

How about this? He was known to be ill. It hardly came out of the blue. Not everything is a conspiracy you know.