leader. he is woefully unprepared and young and untested. that s why there is concern there will be provocative acts. you saw the one short range missile and the fire didn t land anywhere. the main issue to try to keep the south korean response if there is provocation to a minimum to get the chinese to intervene with their influence and this could be a very long transition. has there with other countries, you send a split between the civilian and the military leadership. what was kim jung il s relationship with the media? kim jung il put a military first policy in place. that meant almost all of the goodies that came into north korea that went to the military. that kept them together. he kept enormous funs together