Apparently of a heart attack at age 69. His twenty-something son, Kim Jong-Un, is his annointed successor.
Kim Jong-Il's death means the fight for succession is on. Kim Jong-Un, from everything I've read, is unlikely to be capable of holding onto power. We should be cautious about such outsider assessments, though: I remember very similar things being said about Assad before he took over from his father. Perhaps Kim Jong-Un will be similarly surprising. If not, however, then we could be in for a stretch of ugly on the Korean peninsula.
The Onion already has its take on Kim Jong-Un...
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