The oldest son was dismissed as "too much of a playboy," the middle son as "more interested in video games" than governing. Kim Jong-un, they said, was too young and inexperienced.

他们认为，金的长子“更像个花花公子”，次子“对电子游戏的兴趣多过治理国家”，而三儿子，他们认为，还太年轻，也缺乏经验。

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The oldest son was dismissed as “too much of a playboy, ” the middle son as “more interested in video games” than governing. Kim Jong-un, they said, was too young and inexperienced.

他们认为，金的长子"更像个花花公子"，次子"对电子游戏的兴趣多过治理国家"，而三儿子，他们认为，还太年轻，也缺乏经验。

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Hyun says social instability has increased in North Korea, so leader Kim Jong-il needs to continue to reinforce his domestic power base.

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In Pyongyang, workers, soldiers and children gather in front of towering bronze casts or giant mosaics of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, taking it in turn to shuffle forwards in lines and bow.

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It's time to take a deep breath and consider what we have learned so far in this "crisis, " lest the combined effects of such hyperbole lead the Bush Administration to do what it has pretty much refused to do to this point: embrace and prop-up one of the most odious regimes on the planet -- that of Kim Jong-Il in North Korea.

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