looks like the apple does not fall far from the tree. Unfortunately, if this is true, Un might be just as much of an asshole (if not more-so) than Il. Isn't that always the case with these royals?
North Korea 'plot against exiled son' is foiled
The attack on Kim Jong-Nam, 39, the brother of Kim Jong-Un, was foiled after China warned the North Koreans not to attack him on its soil, a South Korean official has claimed.
Kim Jong-Un's aides tried "to do something to Jong Nam, who has a loose tongue abroad", the official said, but added that the plot had been firmly scotched by China.
The plan to move against Jong-Nam, a father of two who lives in self-imposed exile in Beijing and Macao, was allegedly fuelled by rumours that he might be employed as a Chinese puppet ruler in the event of a regime collapse.
A South Korean paper added that Jong-Nam had close ties with China's "princelings", the children of senior Chinese officials who have powerful business interests and political connections in China.
In the 1990s, Jong-Nam seemed on track to succeed his father after being made head of foreign counter-intelligence, but fell spectacularly from grace in 2001 after he was caught trying to enter Japan on a forged passport to visit Tokyo Disneyland.
Since then, Jong-Nam has lived with his wife and two children, moving between the gambling hub of Macao and Beijing, where he maintains a second property, on a reported pounds 500,000 annual allowance.
He has given interviews to the Japanese and South Korean media, often speaking with a frankness and informality not in step with his father's secretive regime.
Last weekend, Jong-Nam said on Beijing television that he had no plans to return to North Korea, but he was "opposed" to hereditary succession and hinted at the need for economic reforms to raise living standards.
