“A laughing leader with a brutal agenda”
“Kim Jong-Un, according to north Korean mythology, a prodigy who could handle a gun and speak seven languages at the age of three.”
“But very little is known about the real Kim – behind the dictatorship propagandafasad.”
“this is what we think we know.”
“Born on 8 January 1982, 1983 or 1984 – the first year is believed to have been chosen to better fit in personality – was Kim 2011 one of the world’s youngest heads of state. He then took over the leadership in one of the world’s most closed states after the father and dictator Kim Jong-Il, who officially born 40 years earlier. Kim Jong-Uns grandfather, Kim Il-Sung, which is still the formal president of Korea, was born according to mythology, the 70 years in the past.”
“The japanskfödda Korean dancer Ko Yong-Hi – father’s third wife – who is believed to have died of breast cancer in 2004 is assumed to have been Kim’s mother.”
“Kim Jong-Un was considered by analysts to be a blank card, a vulnerable leader who could easily become utmanövrerad of the other people in line, when he took office. Instead, they began a brutal rule of purges within the power apparatus, in which, and with his influential consanguinity uncle Jang Song-Thaek was executed after accusations of treason.”
“Kim is also believed to be behind the giftmordet on halvbrodern Kim Jong-Nam – seen as kommuniststatens future leaders before he fell out of favor because of a visit in Japan, which north Korea regarded as a nemesis – in Malaysia in February 2017.”
“the Picture is in contrast to the accommodative photos in state-owned north Korean media, where a laughing or lovingly smile at Kim, not infrequently administers hugs during visits in factories or at public events.”
“But behind that smile is a brutal dictator who according to human rights organisations systematically and indiscriminately arrests, tortures and executes dissidents. Something that became known the world over, when north Korea imprisoned american student Otto Warmbier was unexpectedly released in June 2017. Warmbier had serious head injuries and died just a few days after returning home. In an interview with Fox News told his parents that the son’s body was severely deformed by torture.”
“As a young man studied Kim in a swiss private school in Gümligen near the capital Bern, and then in school in Pyongyang. Studies in Switzerland took place under the supervision of the aunt, Ko Yong-Suk and her husband. It was never known to school staff or the students that Kim belonged to the ruling family in north Korea. Classmates have described him as reserved, interested in skiing and a fan of action hero Jean-Claude Van Damme, has the AFP news agency reported.”
” He had a sense of humor, got along with everyone, even with the students who came from countries that were the enemy with north Korea, told one of my classmates told German Welt am Sonntag.”
“the Aunt, who defected and fled to the united states in 1998, however, in The Washington Post described Kim as intolerant and with a short fuse. He liked basketball so much that he slept with basketbollen in his bed.”
“Basketintresset seems Kim not have been released. The american breaking basketball star Dennis Rodman is one of the few westerners who met with Kim in north Korea.”
“Not much is known about Kim’s immediate family. But after one of the Rodmans visit, 2013, he disclosed for the uk’s The Guardian that Kim had a daughter, Kim Ju-Ae.”
“He is a good dad and has an adorable family,” said Rodman.”
“Then had the country’s first lady Ri Sol-Ju, only been known to the public in a year. At the end of August 2017, reported the south Korean intelligence that the couple had their third child, writes AFP.”
“As a third generation leader in the Kimdynastin has Kim Jong-Un has taken full control of the state apparatus – last year, he appointed himself chairman of the newly established Highest governance committee. He has also pushed the name of the father konfrontativa stance vis-à-vis the outside world to its tip, with regular nuclear and robottest.”
“at the same time made the country even more after Kim’s party. He distanced himself even from China, which historically has been the closest ally this country has had – in addition to the former Soviet union. He had until recently not even visited the neighbouring country to meet president Xi Jinping. Beijing, which previously held the Pyongyang under the arms, has introduced comprehensive sanctions against north Korea.”
“Kim is said to have known already at his eighth birthday that he would become the north Korean leader. In the country’s sometimes bizarre mythology, which is characterized by the personality around the Kim, he had already learned how to drive a car and handle a gun. As well as his father and his grandfather are the leader with the help of propaganda to a kind of god. The question is how he is perceived by the country’s population.”
“– It is not that people are brainwashed and believe that he is God. The people know what it is about, but it dare not challenge, has the north Korean defector, Jang Jin-Sung told The Guardian.”
“at the same time burdened the country by the comprehensive sanctions that the US pushed for in order to get the negotiations to fruition.”
“But Trump and Kim also managed to reach an agreement, in which Pyongyang committed itself to strive for nuclear disarmament on the Korean peninsula. The agreement has, however, been described as watered down, and despite the fact that north Korea to the joy ended with the robot and nuclear tests, and claimed that several test sites destroyed the analyst believes that the country still has the same military capability as in the past, and that its nuclear programme continues.”
“In the state media portrayed Kim still smiling, but now-a-days, not seldom in peace the white color rather than in strictly dark clothing. The question is whether the will to peace is a genuine effort to change the country’s totalitarian direction, a way to escape the penalties or if there is a further strategic move by an unpredictable state.”
“The communist north Korea was founded with soviet help in 1948, then Korea split into an american and a soviet ockupationszon after the second world war. A civil war between the North and the South raged 1950-53, then the north Korean troops crossed the border and gone to the attack.”
“The two countries have never concluded a peace but a truce, is still. A four-kilometre wide demilitarised zone separating the two countries.”
“The official ideology in north Korea extols”
“the Arbitrary arrests of critics of the regime, lack of the rule of law, and torture and ill-treatment of prisoners in the country’s prisons and detention centres is extensive. The data also shows that the country practises public executions for crimes like the theft of state property and the hoarding of food, as well as for serious crimes. According to Amnesty International and the people that fled north Korea during the 2000s, there are large labour camps for dissidents.”