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Son of NKorea's Kim has 'no interest' in taking over: report
AFP - Sunday, January 25
SEOUL (AFP) - - The eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il Saturday said he had no interest in taking power and that his father alone would decide on a successor, according to Yonhap news agency.
The South Korean agency, quoting "well-informed intelligence sources," reported earlier this month that Kim had nominated his third son, Kim Jong-Un, as successor and had informed the ruling communist party leadership of his choice.
The issue is a subject of intense interest, notably after South Korean and US officials said Kim Jong-Il suffered a stroke in mid-August.
But Kim Jong-Nam, speaking at a Beijing hotel, said: "I myself have no interest," according to Yonhap.
Earlier, he told reporters at an airport in the Chinese capital: "No one can say positively (how Kim will decide on his successor)... only my father will decide," Yonhap said.
The news agency put his age at 38, having earlier said he was 37.
He said he had no information related to the report that Kim Jong-Un had been tapped as his father's successor, telling reporters that "it is not right to make assumptions when nothing has been decided."
When asked whether he holds great influence in the Stalinist state, he said: "That is not so."
Kim Jong-Nam had arrived in Beijing from Pyongyang with Wang Jiarui, a senior Chinese Communist Party official.
Kim Jong-Il held talks with the Chinese envoy Friday, state media in Beijing and Pyongyang reported, his first known meeting with a foreign visitor since his reported stroke.
Kim Jong-Nam declined to comment on his father's health.
"Please understand that I cannot disclose anything even if I have any information," he said, according to Yonhap.
Kim Jong-Un, 25, was born to the leader's third wife, Ko Yong-Hi, who reportedly died of breast cancer in 2004.
Kim Jong-Nam, who was born to a different mother, is thought by some to have spoiled his prospects after being deported from Japan in 2001 for trying to enter the country with a forged passport.
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