High-ranking North Korean party and military official Choe Ryong Hae, center left, shakes hands with Chinese Ambassador Liu Hongcai as Choe departs for China as a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, at Pyongyang airport, North Korea Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/ Kim Kwang Hyon)
High-ranking North Korean party and military official Choe Ryong Hae, center left, shakes hands with Chinese Ambassador Liu Hongcai as Choe departs for China as a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, at Pyongyang airport, North Korea Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/ Kim Kwang Hyon)
Some intelligence officials fear that Kim Jong-Un may take a page from his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, who launched the Korean War in part because he feared losing power. (Associated Press)
** FILE ** In this March 11, 2013, photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed March 12, 2013, by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un greets military personnel at a long-range artillery sub-unit of KPA Unit 641 during his visit to front-line military units near the western sea boarder in North Korea near the South's western border island of Baengnyeong. (AP Photo/KCNA via KNS)
** FILE ** North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (left) and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/VICE Media, Jason Mojica)
** FILE ** North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (left) and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/VICE Media, Jason Mojica)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un waves in this government-issued photograph.
** FILE ** North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends an enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea at an undisclosed location in North Korea on an undetermined date. Mr. Kim issued “important” guidelines on how to bolster the army and protect the nation's sovereignty at the high-level meeting, state media said on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, an indication Pyongyang has finalized formal procedural steps and is ready to conduct an atomic test. It conducted the test on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
Some intelligence officials fear that Kim Jong-Un may take a page from his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, who launched the Korean War in part because he feared losing power. (Associated Press)
