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What's Next After the Dear Leader's Gone?

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Dec 20, 2011
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The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il last Saturday has left the world’s analysts scrambling for answers about what comes next in the reclusive, nuclear-armed country. There are few available, but there are wide ranges of possibilities.

Kim had been ill since suffering a stroke in 2008 and despite periodic appearances in public to demonstrate his …

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