Pity the fools who thought the chubby, mysterious, basketball and junk food-loving teenager who spent four years incognito at a posh Swiss school would reform North Korea when he assumed command in He reportedly turned up alive Friday after weeks of speculation that he was dead or comatose. Kim was shipped to Switzerland β where an older brother had already gone to study β around age 12 in during the devastating North Korean famine that killed up to 3 million people.
He was left in the care of an aunt who posed as his mother and later defected to the US , where she ran a dry cleaners in Manhattan. He also loved Jean-Claude Van Damme movies. Kim was so crazy about basketball that he sometimes slept with one next to his bed, his aunt once said.
He wore NBA jerseys, had a massive collection of expensive Nike shoes and wore fancy tracksuits, never jeans, as jeans were a sign of hated capitalism. Riesen said he often walked to school from the unassuming home he lived in with his aunt and other family members not far from the North Korean embassy. And make no mistake, Riesen said. Micaelo said Kim once confessed that he was the son of the leader of North Korea. Arguably all it did was inspire Kim to build an amusement park and ski resort that usually sit empty while ordinary North Koreans struggle to find enough to eat.
They know the education is fake, the mythology of the Kim family is fake. Their whole family would be punished. They call it the three-generation rule.
Kim has the same problem. If he wants to survive he has to continue the brutality. It was extremely brutal how he killed his uncle and brother. It was public, gruesome and humiliating. And make no mistake.
