S. Korea, U.S., Japan discuss what has been unlikely scenario: The collapse of N. Korea
South Korea, the United States and Japan have begun talking about the possibility that North Korea's Kim Jong-Il regime has lost control while being fully pre-occupied by economic and succession crises, a diplomatic source in Seoul said.
When diplomatic chiefs from the three counties gathered in Washington on Dec. 6, they shared a view that something unusual might have taken place in North Korea's control tower, the source said.