All busy in the North Korean front.

It's all happening in DPRK at the moment as the new chosen leader will ascend into the North Korean dynasty soon. North Korea still remains in my top dream destination, obviously not for the non-tourist attractions but the enigma that it is. Now that North Korea has already picked a young  successor, Kim Jong Un, everyone wonders if his era would usher in a more open North Korea.

That's not the interesting bit of story though.

Kim Jong Un was not the first in  line to ascend to the North Korean throne. Instead, his older half brother, Kim Jong Nam  was being groomed to replace the North Korean lineage. All these plans crumbled into pieces when in 2001, Kim Jong Nam was caught using a fake passport in Japan in his attempt to visit the happiest place on earth, North Korea Disneyland. The incident left a great deal embarrassment for Kim Jong Il, enough for him to cancel an important trip to China. Kim Jong Nam then, has fallen out of favor to inherit the North Korean leadership.

Kim Jong Il and the story of succession of the North Korean leadership is entangled in a complex story of his personal life. Kim Jong Il is a Casanova-wannabe. He had a long string of mistresses and affairs. A riveting tale of love, lust, secret affairs, mistresses, war, murder, espionage and power struggle. It has all the elements of an epic Korean soap drama. It will be like Jewel in the Palace minus the cooking.