Kim Jong Un reportedly in “Grave Danger” after surgery.

[pikachu]

Boring jokes about women dictators aside, we really have no idea who’d take over if KJU died. Being a woman is actually a pretty big demerit against his sister in a governing culture which is very militaristic (and doesn’t have much of an independent power base anyway...) and his brother doesn’t seem to give a crap about governance.

His sister doesn’t have much of an independent power base and it’s more likely that you’d get a major conflict within the party over who the successor is, and the consequences of that could get pretty ugly for the world at-large. Definitely easy to imagine that we get back to the climate of 2017 where we see a lot of posturing by NK in some general’s effort to consolidate his control and worst-case, now would be a terrible time for a regime collapse scenario  considering the pandemic and deteriorating US-China relations.