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Is this Kim Jong Il's heir? REUTERS/Courtesy of Kenji Fuji

A boy identified, according to Reuters, by South Korean TV station KBS as Kim Jong-un, the third son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is seen in this undated file photo provided by a Japanese national known as Kenji Fujimoto in Tokyo June 4, 2009.

Kim Jong-il has just died at age 69. He reportedly, according to Reuters, had pancreatic cancer, as reported by South Korean broadcaster YTN on July 13, 2009 based on information gathered by Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources.

Kim, now dead at 70, also apparently had a stroke.

Jong-un is thought to be about age 27 or so at this time.

Also according to Reuters, Fujimoto has reported that Jong-un was 11 years old when this photo was snapped

Reuters reports that what Fujimoto wrote across the bottom of the photo translates as, Received from Prince Kim Jong-un. March 31, 2001, 1:30AM in Wonsan.