When North Korea Falls
The furor over Kim Jong-il's missile tests and nuclear brinksmanship obscures the real threat: the prospect of North Korea's catastrophic collapse. How the regime ends could determine the balance of power in Asia for decades. American military officers talk of the Kim Family Regime. Kim Jong-il learned a lesson from the fall of the Ceausescu Family Regime: Take complete control of the military. The KFR now rules through the army. Kim Jong-il's father established a link in the North Korean mind between the Kim Family Regime and the Choson Dynasty, which ruled the Korean peninsula for 500 years, beginning in the late fourteenth century.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2006/10/when-north-korea-falls/5228/
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