[DoodleDawg]

...pro-reform leader Jang Sung-taek

I think that's a bit of a stretch, isn't it?

[TigerLikesRooster]

means Chinese style economic program.
He had that idea for a long time. Does not mean he is Gorbachev. More like latter day Deng Xiaping who pursued reformed economy but at the same time he congratulated PLA for running tanks over protesting students at Tiananmen Square, turning them into meat pie.