North Korea coming of age

It looks like the young leader has more smarts than his father did.  I looked into my crystal ball and I see Kim Jong Un replacing the old fogies around him with young energetic North Korean men and women and holding out a hand in friendship to South Korea and other nations.

From GoogleNews:
Google's executive chairman  is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea.

Eric Schmidt will be traveling to North Korea on a private, humanitarian mission led by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson that could take place as early as this month, sources told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The sources, two people familiar with the group's plans, asked not to be named because the visit had not been made public.

The trip would be the first by a top executive from U.S.-based Google, the world's largest Internet search provider, to a country considered to have the most restrictive Internet policies on the planet.

North Korea is in the midst of what leader Kim Jong Un called a modern-day "industrial revolution" in a New Year's Day speech to the nation Monday. He is pushing science and technology as a path to economic development for the impoverished country, aiming for computers in every school and digitized machinery in every factory....

From TheTelegraphUK:
...The 29-year-old made his address  standing at a huge wooden lectern in front of two vases of what appeared to be purple Kimilsungia flowers, a type of orchid named after his grandfather. The more round and squat Kimjongilia flower was not visibly on display...

He vowed that North Korea would "open up a new phase" and make a "radical turnaround" in its economy in 2013, perhaps signalling that he is considering some of the economic reforms that have transformed North Korea's neighbours.

"Let us bring about a radical turn in the building of an economic giant with the same spirit and mettle as were displayed in conquering space," he said....