摘要
Both North Korea and South Korea will be busily occupied with their internalaffairs in 1997. (1) Regime building will be the central task for North Korea before and af-ter Kim Jong-il takes over the country’ s leadership. After Kim Jong-il’s 3-yearmourning period expires on July 8, he may formally assume his office as generalsecretary of the Korean Worker’ s Party and president of the state sometime be-
