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Forbes predicts death of Kim next year
Tue, Sep 14, 2010
The Korea Herald/Asia News Network
By Lee Woo-young
FORBES magazine has predicted that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il will die in 2011 at the age of 70 and his son Jong-un, 29, will succeed him to rule the country. But the magazine did not say what the cause of his death might be.
Kim Jong-il is currently ill after suffering a minor stroke.
Forbes also added that North Korea would seek trade with the United States in 2011.
Other forecasts include Chelsea Clinton, daughter of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, becoming a US senator for New York while pregnant in 2016.
Forbes released other predictions for the next 10 years in the fields of politics, technology, medicine, finance and economics, society and environment and energy in its special report "The Next 10 Years."
Forecasts in technology include Trans-Eurasia Express, the world's fastest train, arriving in Paris from Beijing and breaking the 300mph record in 2018; Steve Job retiring and pledging $50 billion (S$66.8 billion) upon his death to the Gates Foundation; and Jonathan Ive, senior vice president at Apple, becoming CEO in 2019.
In 2012, Apple is subjected to a probe into the monopoly of the tablet computer market by the U.S. Department of Justice
Then, social networking site Facebook debuts on NASDAQ in 2012. Its IPOs value $40 billion and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, becomes the first 20-something worth $10 billion-plus.
In medicine, men become obsolete in 2016 when two Australian women conceive the first fatherless child using synthetic sperm derived from one mother's stem cell.
Despite advanced medical technologies, US life expectancy declines for the first time in a century, due to obesity, in 2018.
In 2020, China, facing a dire lack of women, legalizes same-sex marriage, prompting the central government to institute pro-homosexual propaganda and financial incentives.
Bluefin tuna goes extinct in 2013 and the Mitsubishi conglomerate will sell frozen stockpiles at ten times the previous prices. In 2017 meat grown in labs, called The Murderless Meat, goes on sale.
Energy scarcity leads to a water war between China and Tibet in 2020 as China opens a giant hydroelectric dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet. It also sparks military threats from India and Pakistan.
However, efforts to find clean energy continue in 2019: the first large-scale nuclear fusion experiments commence in France, which prompts new promises of limitless clean power, Forbes predicted.
Forbes predicts death of Kim next year
Tue, Sep 14, 2010
The Korea Herald/Asia News Network
By Lee Woo-young
FORBES magazine has predicted that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il will die in 2011 at the age of 70 and his son Jong-un, 29, will succeed him to rule the country. But the magazine did not say what the cause of his death might be.
Kim Jong-il is currently ill after suffering a minor stroke.
Forbes also added that North Korea would seek trade with the United States in 2011.
Other forecasts include Chelsea Clinton, daughter of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, becoming a US senator for New York while pregnant in 2016.
Forbes released other predictions for the next 10 years in the fields of politics, technology, medicine, finance and economics, society and environment and energy in its special report "The Next 10 Years."
Forecasts in technology include Trans-Eurasia Express, the world's fastest train, arriving in Paris from Beijing and breaking the 300mph record in 2018; Steve Job retiring and pledging $50 billion (S$66.8 billion) upon his death to the Gates Foundation; and Jonathan Ive, senior vice president at Apple, becoming CEO in 2019.
In 2012, Apple is subjected to a probe into the monopoly of the tablet computer market by the U.S. Department of Justice
Then, social networking site Facebook debuts on NASDAQ in 2012. Its IPOs value $40 billion and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, becomes the first 20-something worth $10 billion-plus.
In medicine, men become obsolete in 2016 when two Australian women conceive the first fatherless child using synthetic sperm derived from one mother's stem cell.
Despite advanced medical technologies, US life expectancy declines for the first time in a century, due to obesity, in 2018.
In 2020, China, facing a dire lack of women, legalizes same-sex marriage, prompting the central government to institute pro-homosexual propaganda and financial incentives.
Bluefin tuna goes extinct in 2013 and the Mitsubishi conglomerate will sell frozen stockpiles at ten times the previous prices. In 2017 meat grown in labs, called The Murderless Meat, goes on sale.
Energy scarcity leads to a water war between China and Tibet in 2020 as China opens a giant hydroelectric dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet. It also sparks military threats from India and Pakistan.
However, efforts to find clean energy continue in 2019: the first large-scale nuclear fusion experiments commence in France, which prompts new promises of limitless clean power, Forbes predicted.
