No clear successor to Kim seen in North Korea

The Associated Press:

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's Kim Jong Il — reclusive, eccentric and mercurial — has revealed little about who might succeed him as leader.

Kim, 66, has had at least four children with three women, but none has emerged as the obvious candidate to take the world's first communist hereditary dynasty into a third generation.

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