Despite North Korea's much-publicized rocket launch, time is not on the side of Kim Jong-Il, observes Daniel Sneider

Writing in the New York Times, Shorenstein APARC's Associate Director for Research Daniel C. Sneider characterizes North Korea's recent rocket launch as the act of "a weak, if not failing, state whose frail leader has glimpsed his own mortality and now is urgently trying to fashion his own succession before he passes from the scene."