Yonhap:
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's official media on Saturday aired a documentary pledging allegiance to its leader-in-waiting, despite otherwise low-key celebrations of the heir-apparent's presumed birthday.
The one-hour-long film shown on Korean Central TV opens with a scene from current leader Kim Jong-il's inauguration as supreme commander of the military 19 years ago, during which his father and North Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung, prompts a round of applause from the audience after demanding absolute obedience to his son. The following scenes display laudatory letters and messages from former officials of the communist nation's 1.2 million-strong military.
The documentary appears to stress the legitimacy of the ongoing father-to-son power succession across three generations by mentioning Kim Jong-il and his heir-apparent, Jong-un, side by side and in larger font than other texts. It also gives the impression that Jong-un is carrying on the tradition of revolution started by his grandfather.
South Korean officials believe Kim Jong-un celebrated his 28th or 29th birthday relatively low-key with music recitals and athletic meetings on Saturday. Open Radio for North Korea, a broadcast run by North Korean defectors for transmission into the North, cited an unnamed source as saying that the North Korean authorities had decided not to designate the birthday as a public holiday and gone into special alert for two days from Friday for fear of a public outburst of disapproval of Kim Jong-un's succession.
The younger Kim was unveiled to the world as a four-star general and later named as a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party last September.South Korea is still training for war. Nothing but tough love to the North for the time being.
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