Uncertainty following the death of Kim Jong-il

South Korean Parliament will today open meetings of emergency to discuss the effects of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and devise measures to address the vacuum of power in the North, Korea local news agency Yonhap.

Parliamentary two South Koreans, major party the governing Grand National leaders and the opposition Democratic, scheduled for today special sessions of the management committees on Foreign Affairs, trade and unification, national defence and intelligence.

In addition, senior government officials will be discussed separately in such committees the emergency measures to take in this time of uncertainty political of its neighbor to the North.

According to Yonhap, it is expected that during the meetings, the opposition forces criticise the intelligence services and diplomats from Korea in the South, for not having warned the death of Kim Jong-il, who died Saturday of a heart attack, before being u000adisclosed two days later on the means of communication

When yesterday at noon, local time, the Central Agency of North Korea news announced the death of the maximum leader of the country, the Minister of defence was at a parliamentary meeting and the President, Lee Myung-bak, ignored the event.

Political parties will also pay special attention to the transition of power, which could eventually generate internal disputes in the North Korea, where Kim Jong - un, younger son of the maximum leader, has been pointed out to his less than 30 years of age as the next leader of the hermetic Communist State.

Transition
South Korean political elites consider the evolution of the process of transition of power in the North Korea, transcendental as convdicionará the geopolitical scene in the region in 2012, when Korea of the South will hold parliamentary elections in April and citizens to be elected to u000aits new President in December

The Presidential Office in Seoul, the Foreign Ministry and the army yesterday decreed a State of emergency among its staff due to regional uncertainties raised by the announcement of the death of Kim Jong-Il.

The maximum leader North Korea - no, Kim Jong-Il, died Saturday of a heart attack and his son Kim Jong - Un was appointed to succeed him, announced yesterday Monday media official media of this hermetic and impoverished country possessing the weapon nuclear.

The White House called yesterday on the new Government of Korea from the North to meet its commitments on nuclear, after the death of Kim Jong-Il.

"We hope that the new North Korean leadership will take the necessary steps to support the peace, prosperity and a future better for the North Korean people, including" the "Act on their commitments for denuclearization", said the spokesman for the White House, Jay u000aCarney.

This very day, North Korea carried out a test launch of short-range missile from its eastern coast, which the South Korean News Agency Yonhap, which quoted a Government responsible not identified, was not re - relationships with the announcement of the death.

Kim Jong-Il, of 69 or 70 years according to the sources, died on Saturday, December 17 at 08: 30 pm (23 H 30 GMT Friday), announced a State television channel presenter between sobbing.

The Central Agency of Korean press (KCNA) reported that Kim Jong-Il died as a result of "a cardiac crisis and severe myocardial infarction" when travelling by train in one of his regular trips outside the capital. Yesterday he performed an autopsy.

External pressure from USA and SURCOREA
the Minister of defence of Korea of the South, Kim Kwan-jin, and the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, agreed yesterday to keep one u000astrong on Pyongyang following the announcement yesterday of the death of its leader, Kim Jong-Il defensive position

Both responsible defence held a telephone conversation in which agreed to establish close coordination and surveillance of the Communist regime in the North at this time of political uncertainty by local news agency Yonhap.

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