The government has, for the last two decades, been living in fear of how suddenly the communist governments of Eastern Europe fell in 1989. Some North Korean officials are thinking that 1989 has arrived in North Korea, and it’s time to implement the escape plan. One rumor coming out of North Korea is that the officials who came up with the currency exchange plan have since been arrested and executed. However, these guys would be scapegoats, as it is widely believed that the currency exchange idea came straight from leader Kim Jong Il. North Korean officials are also warning Chinese officials that foreigners will soon be banned from North Korea for a month or so, in order to help maintain order, by preventing the outside world know about the unrest.

Also, the rats can tell the ship is taking water and could well sink soon:

December 27, 2009: Chinese officials who deal with the North Korean government report that there is still no official decision on who will succeed the sickly North Korean leader. Generals and Communist Party officials discreetly are lining up behind the oldest son (a playboy, but ruthless and power hungry) and the youngest (smart, and young enough to be controlled by a committee of older officials, for a while, anyway). Since there has been no official announcement about who the heir is, if Kim Jong Il died tomorrow, there could be a power struggle, that could get very violent. There are indications of that from Chinese reporting North Korean officials increasingly arranging to establish second homes in China, and sending children, and even wives, there. Defectors report that there is an escape tunnel, from the capital, to the port of Nampo, which would enable officials, in an emergency, to secretly flee to China by sea.
South Koreans are expressing their concern over the deteriorating conditions up north, by spending more time discussing how South Korea will handle absorbing North Korea. It’s become accepted that the north will eventually collapse in chaos, and South Korea will be largely responsible for taking care of the mess. This is not expected to turn out well.

Telling that Nork apparatchiks are fearing a Ceaucescu moment – and few know that it was religion that fomented that uprising as well. Go Robert Park!!!!!!