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He is due to step down in a power transition that begins on 8 November.
Analysts have said the ageing Karimov is trying to postpone a power transition that has recently been complicated by an ugly family feud.
"We have a power transition in China this year as well, and China's influence is only going to grow," said Chen Meini, a senior at Beijing Sport University.
In his view, Pyongyang's hard line position was either a negotiating tactic or an indication that a power transition was near, but in any case did not represent the final word on the denuclearization issue.
Elsewhere in the paper, the director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics, Fawaz A Gerges, writes that opposition groups need to maintain their demands for change or risk being sidelined in a power transition.
Logvinov urged patience, suggesting Pyongyang's hard line "was either a negotiating tactic or an indication that a power transition was near, but in any case did not represent the final word on the denuclearisation issue".
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Political scientists refer to such a shift as a power-transition crisis.
Historically, however, a power-transition crisis tends to lead to hegemonic war to establish new leaders within anarchic systems.
He has not been seen since last spring when the affair erupted before the Communist party's once-a-decade power transition, training an unwelcome spotlight on infighting and corruption among the political elite.
Chinese Communist leaders meet in Beijing for the party's once-in-a-decade power transition.
The shift comes in the midst of major behind-the-scenes jockeying as the once-in-a-decade power transition unfolds.
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