Peering through the North Korean political mist, lately thickened by Kim Jong Il's reported illness and a resurgent nuclear crisis, analysts have begun looking at the North Korean leader's brother-in-law as part of a possible succession.
But if Jang Song Taek were to emerge on top, it would likely be as the head of a collective leadership, rather than as an absolute ruler like Kim Jong Il or his father, North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, experts in Seoul say.
They say no single person in the communist dictatorship is poised to take over as smoothly as Kim _ groomed for 20 years _ did after his father died in 1994. But the 62-year-old Jang, husband of Kim's …
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