Pyongyang settles political succession ' To6kyo, Oct. 14.-President 'Kimn 11 Sung of North Korea 'today named Mr Kim'-Jong Il, 'his son, a'-his political s'ucces- sor, it was' reported .from.t Pyonrgyang. - Mr Kim, aged 40, was' pr- m'oted to the Number Two posi- tion in the ruling Communist Party Secretariat 'after. his father, at a five-day party con- gress which ended today in the North Korean capital. The two Kims'are the,only people 'to hold posts in both the Politburo, which determines national policies, and the `5ec- retariat, which controls 'party personnel. Earlier, South Korea had ex- pressed concern about Mr Kim assuming grea-ter power. in North Korea because of fekrs that he-would be more doctrin- Aire than his father; President Kim II Sung, who is 68 and has.led Norih- Korea since its founding in 1945, re- tained his other posts of party Geneifal Secretary and chair- man of the Central Committee's military affairs commission. Mr Kim was born in Siberia and spent the Koreani War in China before going to _school in East Germany. He graduated in 1963 from the Kim Il Sung. University in Pyongyang. He rose quickly in politics until an incident in August, 1976, at t-he truce village of Panmunjon, when North Korean soldiers murdered tvo,sAmeri- can soldiers with axes. After that, he went into obscurity: for two years and Western ob- servers believed that either his father or the leadership had blamed him for the incident. But Mr Kim reappeared to become Secretary of the party's Central Committee. Mr Kim nowv ranks fourth among the'five members of the newly-created Standing Com- mittee of the Politburo, after his father, vice-president Kim II and Mr 0 Jin U, the Defence Minister, but before Mr Li Jong Ok, the Prime Minister.- Reuter and Agence France- Presse. Leading articlh, page 15 .Pyongyang settles political succession.