(CNN) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has added his brother-in-law to a military board in a move analysts say paves the way for an heir, according to South Korea's state-sponsored Yonhap news agency.

Kim Jong-il has named his brother-in-law Jang Song Thaek to a top military board.

The addition of his kin to the powerful National Defense Commission also solidifies his standing, Yonhap said.

Kim was reappointed Thursday as chairman of the military board in his first major public appearance since a reported stroke in August. His brother-in-law, Jang Song Thaek, is considered his right-hand man, according to Yonhap.

Jang, who has been married to Kim's sister since 1972, currently serves as a director of the Workers' Party, Yonhap said.

"Kim wants to keep the military in check and secure loyalty to both the military and the party," Cha Doo-hyeogn, a North Korea expert, told Yonhap.

Kim also increased the number of members in the military agency to 13, from eight, Yonhap said.

"Overall, the power of the National Defense Commission was strengthened," Seoul's Unification Ministry spokesman, Kim Ho-nyoun, told Yonhap in a briefing.

There were no other major changes in the new parliament, which signifies that Kim, 67, is prepared to maintain the status quo as he readies someone to take over from him, analysts told Yonhap.

Kim's recent health problems and long absence from public functions have prompted speculation on whether he is ready to groom an heir to the world's only communist dynasty. But the secretive nation shields its internal affairs from international scrutiny. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What kind of health problems has he been having?
2. Who did he name to the top military board?
3. What is his name?
4. Who does he consider to be his right hand man?
5. How long has Jang been married to Kim's sister?
6. What is Jang
7. Were there any changes to the parliament?
8. How many people did he increase the agency with?
9. How active is Kim in public functions?
10. What do people speculate that he is getting ready to do?
11. What do analysts say paves a way for an heir?
12. What was Kim reappointed as?
13. What did Kim Ho-nyoun tell Yonhap in a briefing?
Answer: 1. he had a stroke
2. his brother-in-law
3. Jang Song Thaek
4. Jang Song Thaek
5. 46 years today
6. a director of the Workers' Party
7. no
8. Five
9. not very
10. have someone take over from him
11. adding the brother-in-law to a military board
12. chairman of the military board
13. Overall, the power of the National Defense Commission was strengthened

question: CHAPTER VIII

KIPPS ENTERS SOCIETY

1

Submission to Inexorable Fate took Kipps to the Anagram Tea.

At any rate he would meet Helen there in the presence of other people and be able to carry off the worst of the difficulty of explaining his little jaunt to London. He had not seen her since his last portentous visit to New Romney. He was engaged to her, he would have to marry her, and the sooner he faced her again the better. Before wild plans of turning socialist, defying the world and repudiating all calling for ever, his heart on second thoughts sank. He felt Helen would never permit anything of the sort. As for the Anagrams he could do no more than his best and that he was resolved to do. What had happened at the Royal Grand, what had happened at New Romney, he must bury in his memory and begin again at the reconstruction of his social position. Ann, Buggins, Chitterlow, all these, seen in the matter-of-fact light of the Folkestone train, stood just as they stood before; people of an inferior social position who had to be eliminated from his world. It was a bother about Ann, a bother and a pity. His mind rested so for a space on Ann until the memory of these Anagrams drew him away. If he could see Coote that evening he might, he thought, be able to arrange some sort of connivance about the Anagrams, and his mind was chiefly busy sketching proposals for such an arrangement. It would not, of course, be ungentlemanly cheating, but only a little mystification. Coote very probably might drop him a hint of the solution of one or two of the things, not enough to win a prize, but enough to cover his shame. Or failing that he might take a humorous, quizzical line and pretend he was pretending to be very stupid. There were plenty of ways out of it if one kept a sharp lookout....
1. Who is Kipps engaged to?
2. Has it been a while since he saw her?
3. When was it?
4. Where will he see her?
5. What kind of occasion is it?
6. Does he need to explain something to her?
7. What?
8. Does he think it will be easy?
9. What is he going to start restoring?
10. Who is in a lower class than him?
11. What should happen to people like that?
12. Why?
13. What was he planning to become?
14. What didn't he?
15. Who is he hoping to see tonight?
16. What help does he think he might get?
17. Can he help him with a solution?
18. Is he proud?
19. Are there a lot of options?
20. what might he pretend?
****
answer:
1. Helen
2. yes
3. unknown
4. in the presence of other people
5. an anagram contest
6. yes
7. little jaunt to London.
8. no
9. his social position.
10. Ann, Buggins, Chitterlow,
11. they had to be eliminated from his world.
12. unknown
13. a socialist,
14. Helen would never permit anything of the sort
15. Coote
16. some sort of connivance about the Anagrams
17. yes
18. yes
19. yes
20. to pretend he was pretending to be very stupid.