What next for North Korea ?

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Following the Glorious Leaders death, interesting times are ahead for the secretive nation.

It would seem they are ill equipped to go forward in the state they are in, will they be ready to accept more 'help' from the outside world ?

Will China or Russia step in ? Is there anything worth having there, minerals etc ? The infrastructure has been mothballed.

Could South Korea ever open up to a unified Korea once again ? Doing so would set them back decades and cripple them if they were to get anywhere close to equality, it's been far too long now.

Will the US be watching keenly ? They have their own problems, do they really want / need to carry on there ?

There will be millions mourning today and in the coming months, older folk simply will not accept another way.

Has Kim Jong-un been fully prepared for this, and are the people willing to accept him in replacement ?

Time will tell.

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CommanderJameson said:

More of the same, I bet.

I suppose it might not be completely impossible that Jong-un is more interested in girls, cars and music than he is in being leader of a failed state, and therefore is completely weak

He was schooled in Switzerland, a big fan of U.S. Basketball apparently.

His father was an avid collector of movies, and was presumably well versed in U.S. culture. Perhaps the experiment has gone on for too long, and they will give up and join the glorious western world. The culture shock for the folk in the provinces would be immense, there are folk there who don't know man has been to the moon.