{"id":6952,"date":"2010-09-28T13:04:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6952"},"modified":"2011-01-04T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T21:37:27","slug":"north-korea-heir-apparent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/09\/28\/north-korea-heir-apparent\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea heir apparent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong-il <a title=\"promoted his youngest son\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/29\/world\/asia\/29korea.html\" target=\"_blank\">promoted his youngest son<\/a>, Kim Jong-un, to rank of four-star general in the People&#8217;s Army. Also\u00a0made a\u00a0four-star general was the leader&#8217;s 64-year old sister, Kim Kyong-hui. Both moves set the stage for the future leadership of the country. International relations professor <a title=\"William Keylor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/keylor\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Keylor <\/a>gives his view on the move.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As the 27-year old four-star general prepares to take power, he had better keep an eye on his four-star general aunt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This maneuvering in the palace, reminiscent of royal intrigue in 17th century England or France, would be hilarious if it did not involve a country with nuclear weapons and a delivery system.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Contact William Keylor, 617-358-0197, <a href=\"mailto:wrkeylor@bu.edu\">wrkeylor@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong-il promoted his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, to rank of four-star general in the People&#8217;s Army. Also\u00a0made a\u00a0four-star general was the leader&#8217;s 64-year old sister, Kim Kyong-hui. Both moves set the stage for the future leadership of the country. International relations professor William Keylor gives his view on the move. &#8220;As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2532,3853,1040],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6952"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}