The Atlas For 9/28/10: Kim Jong Readies His Son To Replace Him

The top international news today has clearly been the little old dictator getting ready to give his son that same position:

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has apparently named his third son, Kim Jong-un, believed to be 27, as a four-star general in the military ahead of the country's biggest political convention in three decades, making his hereditary succession plan official for the first time, Yonhap news reported.

The announcement was made in the dispatch of Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the state news agency of North Korea, on the opening day of the biggest Workers' Party convention since 1980.

The announcement is the first mention by name in the state's official media of Kim Jong-il's third son.

Picture President Obama firing Mike Bloomberg in NYC, Menino in Boston, or Daley in Chicago. Well, that's what has transpired today in Moscow, as President Medvedev has fired the city's long time mayor Yury Luzhkov. And he appears to do it without Putin telling him to do it.

Add another Gaza bound aid ship captured by the Israeli navy.

Another wild, scary day in the life of a Saharawi activist.

More tough news out of Somalia today, while Kenya is need deep in a famine crisis with the WFP at fault possibly.

Could Wikileaks be on the demise, thanks to its ego-driven leader Julian Assange? I know Robert Gates will be smiling about that somewhere today.

I'm shocked I haven't seen a report liking Hamid Karzai to ecstasy. Maybe Blackwater will give that to him soon?

In despite Hugo Chavez claiming his Socialist party made important gains, it appears that the opposition after Venezuela's elections have faired the better.

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