Ministry of the People’s Armed Forces, Pyongyang
Marshal Kim Jun-Yi, Minister of Defense for the People’s Republic, was changing into his best dress uniform for the first meeting of the senior staff since the formal announcement of the Supreme Leader’s demise. As the mentor and military man most personally associated with the anointed successor, Kim’s input at this meeting of the nation’s uniformed power-brokers was crucial, and he had no intention of appearing frazzled or over-wrought. There would be no coup attempts, no power plays, and no turbulence in the ranks beyond the anticipated maneuvering for coveted positions in a new regime. Marshal Kim would see to that as diligently as he’d worked for the past decade to insure what he desired was—for all intents and purposes—the same as wha
