Joseph Yun Li-sun

Top government leaders are changing ahead of the next party meeting, which should mark the rise of Kim Jong-ju. Kang-sok-ju, father of North Korea’s A-bomb, is appointed to the post of deputy prime minister.

In all likelihood he will choose Kim Jong-un, third son of the "Dear Leader", as his successor. All that is known about him is that he is 25 years old and has studied in Switzerland. But analysts fear a "dangerous and cruel” the nature.

Footballers are subjected to a six-hour dressing down by an audience of 400. The worst criticism was that they betrayed “the trust of Kim Jong-un”. Coach is expelled from party and sent to work on a construction site in the capital.

At the conclusion of the priests, dioceses throughout the country gathered around their clergy, called to be "Servant of the Servants of the Lord."

Two of four players (goalie Kim Myong-won, mid-fielders Kim Kyong-il and Pak Sung-hyok and striker An Chol-hyok) not on squad list are thought to have asked for political asylum in an African country. FIFA denies, claiming an error in list transcript. Next Monday, North Korea plays Portugal; its star player, Jong Tae-se, who wept at the sound of national anthem, has never lived in North Korea.

The Seoul government has always paid for TV rights even for the North. Not this year, despite the North qualifying for the tournament. The Unification Ministry attacks: "After sinking the Cheonan, they can not expect anything."

Sources tell AsiaNews that Kim Jong-il’s government is “on the verge of collapse because of its economic mistakes. It has caused the crisis to rally the population.” In Seoul, Clinton tells North to stop its provocations.

Only the Chinese government “can stop Pyongyang”, a source tells AsiaNews. “However, Beijing is more likely to trade peace on the peninsula for a truce in the yuan war. Sanctions are useful but they will hit a whole people already tried by crisis.”

The faithful around the country celebrate the installation of new bishops of Uijeongbu and Kwangju, "gardeners of the seeds scattered by the Gospel." Celebrations in Seoul mark the inauguration of the charity Foundation in memory of the card. Kim, "stimulus to improve our society."

For the Vatican they are "missing", but still listed as pastors of their dioceses in the Pontifical Yearbook. For the regime of the North they are "perfect strangers" and since the Eighties no official has responded to questions regarding their whereabouts.

North Korea’s dictator and China’s president hold a four-hour meeting. The ‘dear leader’ keeps an unusually high profile, which could be a sign he is in China to blackmail his hosts and remind the world of the alliance between the two nations.

WHO director general, a Chinese national, says that North Korea’s health care system is the envy of many developing countries. Sources tell AsiaNews, “Ms Chan’s statement can only help gain credit with the dictator of Pyongyang, Kim Jong-il, who is on an official visit to China.” The Church works for the sick of North Korea.