of china so which is the key power in the region the youngest son of the late north korean chief kim yano and has already been named as a great successor and the people have been told to unite behind him but as independent journalist tim sure told our team with secrecy surrounding the new rear it's hard to guess what his tenure will bring. he's only been around for three years in the public light he went to school in switzerland apparently he knows a lot about how the internet works and he knows a lot about social media but beyond that we know very little except he's been appointed a four star general and it did take kim jong il who just passed quite a few years to actually gain total acceptance with the power structure there with the powers that be there in the in the party in the government to actually you know take firm control so obviously he has no military training very very you know this year or next to zero military experience but i think what these two leaders this closely held leadership in north korea once is the symbol of their regime and this is a clear you know successor sym

waves around the country and the whole region a stream of mourners including his son and successor kim yano and passed by open coffin the late leader will be buried in a week images from the world's most reclusive nation also show thousands of people uncontrollably reaping on the streets meanwhile north korea's neighbors are on high alert following the news of the death fearing it will spark instability in the region japan's government has called a special security meeting while south korea said its armed forces are combat ready but some experts believe peace on the korean peninsula is determined not by relations between north and south but by a standoff between china and america. important thing here to understand is that for example the top of south korea being on military alert it's not south korea that is on military alert it's the united states that is actually using south korea as a beachhead ever since the end of the korean war on the other hand we have to understand or should really be asking ourselves will the military the north korean military which are very powerful one million s

headlines and we start in north korea working yano has been declared the supreme leader for the first time at a massive public memorial for his father kim yong alle the move shows the government and military officials support of the air in the wake of kim yon ells death from a heart attack just under two weeks ago kim ja known is in his late twenty's and has little political experience raising concern from neighboring countries that the republic could plunge into political infighting. you know. clashes have erupted between hundreds of stone throwing protesters and police in the turkish city obvious stamboul and of countries mainly current or southeast follows a deadly airstrike launched by turkish warplanes against suspected kurdish militants on the border with iraq however a local official says tad killed thirty five smugglers who were mistaken for insurgents itself marks one of the largest one day civilian shows during turkey's twenty seven year draw against the guerrillas. swapping tinsel town for a russian city with an olympic crown an american taxi driver has turned his back on the bright lights of hollywood to share in. the venue