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Susan Shirk on Kim Jong Eun's leadership after the death of Kim Jong Il

Live Blog: North Korea Leader Kim Jong Il Has Died

12/21/2011
Tom Orlik, The Wall Street Journal

"New North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun's uncertain position after the death of his father could hobble nuclear talks, according to a former Clinton administration official.

"Kim Jong Eun is likely to be a weak leader in the short term, which will make it difficult to make progress on nuclear talks," said Susan Shirk, director of the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state covering China for a part of the Clinton administration."

Click here to read the blog post on The Wall Street Journal blog LiveJournal

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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.

In 1993, she founded, and continues to lead, the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.

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