By Via a reader tip comes this news that the author of the book, Separated at Birth Gordon Cucullu has a 10 minute YouTube video about his views in regards to North Korean regime succession:
I agree with Mr. Cucullu in regards to North Korea being run as a crime family. North Korea isn’t called the Soprano State for nothing. I do disagree that the regime elite would quickly get rid of Kim Jong-un. The Cult of Kim is still alive and well in North Korea and keeping Kim Jong-un as a figure head of the regime elite may be needed for quite some time.
Cucullu did make an error in the video when he states Kim Jong-un was the son of Kim Jong-il that was detained trying to enter Japan on a false passport to go to Tokyo Disneyland when it was in fact his oldest son Kim Jong-nam. Unlike regular blogging, with video blogging you cannot clear up simple mistakes like this. So you won’t see me doing video blogging anytime soon, though I doubt any of you would want to see my bald head any way. 
12:10 am on August 1st, 2009 1
It will be interesting to see what happens after Kim dies. I place no bets whatsoever…It could go all different kinds of ways.
I slightly tilt toward the idea things will fall apart:
The cult of personality, isolation from the outside world, and mega propaganda have helped the regime maintain such tight control of a desperate nation, but I think it has also created the seeds for its destruction.
We've heard from North Korean refugees that little to nobody believes the propaganda any more. More and more, though still not a flood by any mean, information from the outside world has crept in. And the cult of personality that has been so central is likely to die with Kim.
His son hasn't been groomed in the eyes of the society to be considered on the level of the father and grandfather. Of course, nobody in the military or elites can step into those propagandized shoes either.
With the loyalty to the family significantly diminished, I don't know if terror alone will be able to keep the nation intact…I've got to have a feeling that at some point the fury of the North Korean countryside is going to explode in spectacular fashion…
4:00 am on August 1st, 2009 2
I think they'll keep Kim Jong Un as a figure head but as Cucullu says, there is nothing preventing Kim Jong Un from having a fatal 'accident'. With total control of the media no one will ever know what happened. This is a pretty scary thought.. I do think this succession will significantly weaken the regime however. Especially if someone from outside the Kim family succeeds Kim Jong Il. I'm sorry I don't have an exact source, but it seems like a lot of people in North Korea are reluctantly obeying Kim Jong Il for respect for his father/god Kim Il Sung. Unlike Kim Jong Il when North Korea started to go backwards in time Kim Il Sung is regarded a hero and I believe people still honor him genuinely unlike Kim Jong Il.