So Kim Jong Ill has chosen his third son to succeed him as ruler of North Korea. He needs the backing of China, but I imagine these things are but formalities.

I remember when I finished University. I came back and ended up working for my dad. 4 years of uni to work for my dad. Now I am in no way belittling what he did, he built a company with his own hands, and made it successful, but that was not what I really wanted to do. In fact my mum was chuffed, when after 8 months, I called it quits.

‘We didn’t send you to university so you could work with your dad!’

So I mooched about until I joined the NSPCC, and the rest, as they say, is history. Now I am sure when my dad gave me that job, there was an element of nepotism there. But I wasn’t succeeding him to be ruler of a country. I would find it strange if China did approve the choice as it seems to go against the fundamental ideals of Communism, the doctrine both countries endorse. Then again, the varying levels’ of wealth, quality of life and grandeur across both nations make me think it is again a selective form of Communism. I could never get my head around the idea of the Chinese Middle Class. It sounded like an oxymoron in my GCSE Geography class, and now as a world super power, it makes even less sense.

I am in no way saying that they have somehow betrayed the founding principals of communism and the CPC, lord knows how difficult it must be to manage a population of over 1 billion, but something is shonky. I may have just put that sentence in so I don’t get a terrifying message from the Chinese authorities!

To be honest, I have lost this train of thought now….so to surmise, I think Kim Jong Ill choosing his son as a successor is a bit iffy, I left working for my dad, and that was fine, and that I am totally confused over China.

That’ll do

- Anand