 has succeeded. You know, when he first came to power at the age of 27, in a bit of a rush, really, the public didn't know him very well. They'd only been introduced to him a year before as the successor of the then leader, Kim Jong Il. So now that he's been in power for 13 years, the fact that his pen has now appeared in public shows that he has been quite successful in putting himself on par with his father and grandfather.