Not up to date on laws... but if they follow the rules then the succession/inheritance rules of NK;
1. Spouse, sons and daughters, adopted children, stepchildren, unborn
children, parents, adoptive parents, and step-parents;
2. Grandchildren, grandparents, brothers and sisters, the adopted brothers and
sisters, and step-brothers and sisters;
3. Blood relatives within the fourth degree of kinship.
Which is important to kill off other same ranking members;
If there are two or more inheritors of the same rank, their shares of the inheritance shall be equally divided (Text, Art. 19). However, the portion of a person who has supported the person dying intestate during their life or a person of small income who is incapable of living for herself or himself may be increased and the portion of a person who has the ability to support but has not performed that duty may be decreased (Proviso, Art. 19).
The news so far has point to the wife and the sister acquiring political clout. Also, men apparently in modern leaks are considered useless other than defending the home. So, a push for a matriarchal inheritance, do to the overall weirdness over there, might be feasible.
North Korea is a militarized, male-dominated society, but it is women who are making the money as the insular nation allows an unofficial market-based economy to take shape.
www.cnbc.com
=> Women earn more than 70 percent of household income in North Korea, mainly as traders in the informal markets that have proliferated in recent years, research by the South Korean government-run Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) found.
“We North Koreans say men are fighting on the socialism front but women are fighting in the battle of life,” said a 26-year-old surnamed Jung who fled to South Korea in 2012 and regularly sends money north to support her mother’s gray-market business raising pigs and selling corn-based alcohol.
“There are no state provisions and my father has an unpaid job, which he must do almost as a duty,” said Jung, a college student in Seoul who asked that her full name not be used to protect her family members still in the North.
“If you want to live better up there, you’d better be a woman selling stuff in markets or marry a man who lives on bribes or taxes from these women at markets, or works for the regime’s trading firms,” said Kim Min-jung, a defector who runs a matchmaking service for 1,500 women who left the North.
“That points to how useless males are in terms of making money for their families,” she said.
With women holding more economic power, more of them are also seeking divorce, according to experts. The main reason cited is financial incompetence, according to a recent survey of 103 defectors by the Seoul-based Korean Bar Association.
The female takeover of North Korea’s main street economy is changing a paternalistic culture that considers the ideal women a stay-at-home wife.
While state media promotes institutional gender equality, society has long been dominated by men. Money is changing that.
“North Korea’s living standards depend on women’s business abilities and skills, not on the state. Women are replacing the role of the state via the market economy,” said Kim Eun-ju, who heads the Center for Korean Women and Politics in Seoul and regularly interviews recent defectors.
“Now men are even looking for potential wives in marketplaces,” she said.
Jung, the college student defector, said: “North Korean women are independent and strong but will get more so as the state can’t provide much for individuals.”
// Essentially, it would reflect the societal norm that has been occurring. Be oppressed long enough, then naturally it will trickle-up.