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Delegates from all over North Korea will meet in the capital, Pyongyang, tomorrow to elect a new top leadership body. The expectation – and, given the secrecy that prevails, it can be no more than that – is that the special conference will name a successor to the present leader, Kim Jong-il, who is believed to have suffered a stroke several months ago, and pave the way for one of Kim's sons, possibly the third, 27-year old Kim Jong-un, to become heir apparent. Such conferences are a rarity in North Korea. Comparisons are being made with the congress of 1980 when Kim Jong-il was formally singled out as the successor to his long-serving father, Kim Il-sung. And the true import of this meeting is unlikely to be clear until outside analysts have pored over the small print. There is a chance, though, that North Koreans are living through the last days of the present regime and that major change could be afoot. Their country has spent the past 30 years bucking every regional and global trend. The moves towards a market economy in China and the then Soviet Union passed it by. So did the fall of the Berlin Wall, the implosion of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Through all these cataclysmic developments, North Korea stuck rigidly to its own self-styled independent way, imprisoned behind the barbed wire it had wound around itself, impervious – or so its leaders intended – to the world outside. Quite how isolated and repressive it remains is vividly illustrated by the treatment meted out to our correspondent when he took too close an interest, for the authorities' liking, in the abject state of the local food market. Not that North Korea's leaders have been able to insulate their country completely. Its nuclear ambitions have exposed it to outside pressure, eliciting a measure of reluctant and fitful engagement. Food shortages and a botched currency reform weakened the regime and forced it to seek help – in a roundabout way – from outside. It has to be recognised that transitions in closed one-party states are times of particular risk, and the more tightly sealed and dictatorial the regime, the greater the danger is likely to be. Whatever emerges from the coming conclave, the hope must be that, if and when major change comes to North Korea, it is peaceful. Its people deserve better than the deprivation imposed upon them for so long; and a more open, less paranoid, regime would make the whole region a safer place. - More about: - Berlin Wall - Kim Jong-il - North Korea - Pyongyang
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Sjeverna Koreja u četvrtak je slavila 70. obljetnicu rođenja svog pokojnog vođe Kim Jong-ila, čije je zasluge s uobičajenim oduševljenjem hvalila službena televizija komunističkog režima koji sada vodi njegov sin Kim Jong-un Obljetnica je obilježena velikom vojnom smotrom u prijestolnici Pyongyangu, po televizijskim snimkama. Svečanost je trebala pokazati odanost kopnene vojske, zrakoplovstva i mornarice sinu Kim Jong-ila , Kim Jong-unu koji je zamijenio oca na čelnoj dužnosti. Na televiziji su se istodobno mogle vidjeti arhivske snimke Kim Jong-ila kako obilazi sela, poljoprivredna dobra i tvornice diljem zemlje kako bi se upoznao sa svojim marljivim narodom. 'General (Kim) bio je jako zauzet, ali je našao vremena da posjeti dom moje kćeri', rekla je starija žena. 'Nijedan svjetski čelnik', dodala je, 'ne može se usporediti s generalom Kimom, koji je u srijedu promaknut u čin vrhovnog zapovjednika koji je prije njega imao samo njegov otac, Kim il-Sung, otac i 'vječni predsjednik' komunističke Sjeverne Koreje.' Analitičari drže da Pyongyang ovom proslavom želi opravdati drugu promjenu na vlasti i učvrstiti vlast mlađeg sina Kim Jong-ila koji će, s nepunih trideset godina, upravljati sudbinom zemlje. Kim Jong-un je u srijedu pratio smotru na kojoj je sudjelovalo više stotina vojnih časnika i državnih dužnosnika kako bi odali počast njegovu ocu. Dan rođenja Kim Jong-ila proglašen je Danom sjajne zvijezde. Njemu u čast diljem zemlje podignuti su monumentalni spomenici, a tisuće Sjevernokorejaca u srijedu su pristizale na goru Paektu, sveto mjesto gdje se, po njegovoj biografiji, rodio 16. veljače 1942. No većina povjesničara ipak smatra da se Kim rodio u Sovjetskom Savezu, gdje je njegov otac do 1945. predvodio pokret otpora protiv japanskog kolonizatora. - Sviđa vam se članak? Preporučite ga prijateljima putem ovih servisa: Pošaljite mailom