N. Korea: Dim Jong-Un (heir-apparent was a dunce)

The Sun ^ | 11/25/10 | ALLAN HALL

[TigerLikesRooster]

Dim Jong-Un

From ALLAN HALL, in Berne, Switzerland

Published: Today

HE IS the heir apparent poised to become the next leader of rogue state North Korea.

And this week Kim Jong-un - youngest son of dictator Kim Jong-il - is said to have ordered the bombardment of South Korean island Yeonpyeong with 200 shells, killing four and causing outrage around the world.

The baby-faced 27-year-old stepped out of his father's shadow last month to appear in public in the capital Pyongyang as thousands of goosestepping troops marched by to mark the 65th anniversary of the ruling Workers Party.

But a Sun probe into the schooldays of Kim Jong-un - now a four-star general - has revealed he might not be the best person to have his finger on the button of North Korea's nuclear arsenal.

In fact, he may be doomed to be forever known as DIM Jong-un after being a flop in the classroom.

Despite having thousands of pounds lavished on his education at a top private school in Switzerland, he didn't leave with even the equivalent of a GCSE.

[TigerLikesRooster]

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[sinsofsolarempirefan]

That story doesn’t really inspire me with confidence....

[Cicero]

"We watched a lot of kung-fu films - especially Jackie Chan movies. He loved them.

I never thought I'd have anything in common with a North Korean dictator.

[JPG]

I do not see a very long life for Lil Kim’s evil spawn.

[Dallas59]

Means he’ll have “others” running the show.

[Justaham]

Tomorrow is not soon enough.

[Billthedrill]

"And at that moment I thought of George Orwell's novel Animal Farm where, truly, some are more equal than others."

It's an arguably communist society but the government is anything but, rather a weird sort of selective hereditary dictatorship, somewhat akin to Rome's in the bad old days. There too the army held things together until it didn't. But NK isn't Rome by a long shot, and if young Kimmie forgets which Chinese hand to kiss he'll find out he's as expendable as Nero, who also enjoyed an opulent youth and a luxurious reign...until they came for him.

[dusttoyou]

Dunce leadership and “have “others” running the show.” sounds like something the USA and NK have in common.

[bigbob]

At least his is due to genetics, ours is due to the electoral college...

[Eccl 10:2]

The fruit didn’t fall far from the tree.

[Wooly]

It does not take brains to be a tyrant.

[Wooly]

It does not take brains to be a tyrant.

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[NoLibZone]

Kim Jong-un’s school records are accessible while Obama’s are not.

[Pan_Yan]

It would fit with the promotion of the Aunt and Uncle.

[SevenofNine]

I wonder if Chia Chub already seen Team America probably

[BobP]

Kim Jong-dunce:

[Bean Counter]

Interesting article and it presents yet another possible path(s) for North Korea....

Kim Jong Il is not the only Stalinist in NoKo. The Military is nasty with little yellow men in fancy big hats that are even bigger assholes than Kim is. That's the problem with being a Stalinist Dictator; you have to have a bunch of people surrounding you who are even more ruthless than you are, and willing to carry out your orders to the letter.

So what if a number of these very Senior Military types don't particularly trust Kim Jong Chunk to be his Daddy's kind of Stalinist Dictator, and decide it is time to end the Kim Dynasty all together, pull off a very bloody and very thorough coup, and install a new Dynasty themselves. I'm sure there are more than a few ambitious little bastards over there with delusions of grandeur and a good set of contacts with the Communist Chinese who are more than capable and probably have a set of long standing plans do do exactly that. It's the nature of a Stalinist Regime.

If things really do spin out of control over there, the last thing the NoKo professional military wants is for the Chinese to have to come in and straighten things out, just like they are not anxious for the United States Air Force to come in and convert that Cease Fire into a Formal Surrender. The Communist Chinese will pretty much go along with anyone in North Korea who promises not to flood 15 million starving, desperate North Korean refugees into mainland China.

I don't know about you, but I don't harbor any illusions about the ability of a 27 year old C- student with too much exposure to Western values, to take charge and inspire a group of men who are 2 1/2 times his age and are Professional Soldiers in their own right to do much of anything. (That's not a value judgment, just an attempt to get you to think like a Nork Field Marshall for a minute...)

Hopefully nobody is harboring any notions that this kid is going to launch some sort of new revolution in North Korea that will improve things in any way, no matter how much Nintendo he played while attending private school...

If you were one of this group, would you be interested in working for Dear Leader's fat, dog-nibbling little brat? Keep in mind that these people and their professional peers are the people who are actually carrying out these ever escalating acts of war, not Kim Jong Chunk...I doubt that the kid can fire a pistol.



Seriously, this is why we are hearing allusions to how the transition "is not going well", which might have been part of the reason Junior "ordered" the attack the other day. He won't be bearing the brunt of any repercussions if they eventually come, and the Professional Military most definitely will. I think the odds of a coup are probably as good as the odds of a direct invasion by the North against the South; neither is likely or imminent, but it's damn sure a strong possibility.

[BerryDingle]

Despite having thousands of pounds lavished on his education at a top private school in Switzerland, he didn't leave with even the equivalent of a GCSE.

Let's wait and see if he needs teleprompters and a podium in a 4th grade classroom.