Update to Disappearing Kim

As an update to yesterday's post about the pictures of Kim Jong-il disappearing in North Korea, Japan's Kyodo News service is reporting that

North Korea's official media on Wednesday dropped the glorifying description of "dear leader" from the nation's leader Kim Jong Il,
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North's Korean Central Broadcast, the Korean Central News Agency and other media simply described him as "general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK National Defense Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army."

I'm still not sure what this means, but it seems that something interesting is definitely going on in North Korea.