His successor, Kim Jong Il, will begin his career with a deputy's mandate.

KommentariiNaslednik16.01.2009Kim Jong Il named successor to his younger son synaMladshy DPRK leader Kim Jong Il's 25-year-old Kim Jong Ung began a formal political career. Its registered candidates for election to parliament - the Supreme People's Assembly, the South Korean agency Yonhap. "
According to the sources of the agency in Beijing, it could mean that the process of appointing a successor, Kim Jong Una current leader of the country. Parliamentary elections will be held on the eighth of March, and since each district nominate only one candidate, his election assured.
AFP reports that Kim Jong Un may be formally named a successor as early as April. At the same time, it is expected the appointment to key positions in the army and the Workers' Party of Korea.
In January, "Yonhap reported that a directive, sent the party leader, Kim Jong Il named his successor, Kim Jong-Una. But the real action to advance his political career was not known.
Despite the fact that in December and January, world media reported the recovery of Kim Jong Il's activities after August 2008, a stroke, observers have noted his absence in the public sphere during the celebration of their 67 th anniversary, which celebrates the month of February.

We know that Kim Jong-Ung has received a European education, but after his return home he does not hold any post, which gave him the necessary political and administrative training. Before the fall of 2008, information about what he or she was elected to the heirs, the experts assessed the probability of his appointment as extremely low, primarily because of his age.