After all, it took Kim Jong-il several years after the death in 1994 of his father, Kim Il-sung, to solidify power, even though he had been groomed for succession for years.
But if we are irresponsible, thoughtless, if we do not feel the pulse of society and let the chance to solidify power and give new dynamic to it pass us by, the time may come when society will be looking for a way out, using any variants.
First, public pressure can still scare a political party, even when it has solidified power over the whole government.
Writing is closely linked to authority and is a means to solidify power, because language can be manipulated into lies that eventually kill.
Taken together, poor economic conditions, high unemployment and a young population pose a potential crisis to regimes either so old that they are considered by many of their own subjects to be out of touch, or so young that they have not been able to solidify power.
George Orwell's 1984, which portrays a dystopian government's use of disinformation and revised history to solidify power, sold out on Amazon last week after it saw sales explode by upwards of 9,500 percent following the inauguration, according to Penguin Random House's Craig Burke.
Since taking office in 2009 — and solidifying her power in a 2014 election marred by an opposition boycott — Prime Minister Sheik Hasina Wajed has gone after Islamist political rivals with the stated goal of protecting the secularism enshrined in Bangladesh's Constitution.
Yingluck, who has been leading a caretaker government with few powers, called the parliamentary elections in December in hope of solidifying her power and calming the protests.
One independent, Wayne Morse, wound up siding with Republicans, solidifying their power.
