Heirs To The Kingdom
The subtext, in case you missed it, is a simmering North Korean power struggle. That’s clear when the missive is decoded: Omonim, analysts agree, must be Kim’s own wife. He’s had two or three–depending on how one counts–but from the context Respected Mother is alive and at his side today. Thus, she isn’t the woman who bore the Great Leader’s eldest son, an actress believed to have died in exile in Moscow last year....