| Dang, is everyone in the Kim family an XXL? |
Kim exchanged the e-mails with Yoji Komi, an editor of the Tokyo Shimbun. They began writing to each other after Komi ran into Kim at Beijing International Airport in 2004. The Japanese journalist later interviewed Kim for a total of seven hours in Beijing and Macau last year.
In one e-mail sent after his father's funeral this month, Kim Jong-nam criticizes the third-generation hereditary power succession in the North. Commenting on the leadership under his younger brother
Kim Jong-nam describes Kim Jong-il as a "strict and affectionate" father. He claims Kim Jong-il once said, "I won't hand power to my child."
| As in most everything else, he lied... |