Kim Jong Un’s former classmates say he really is ‘dangerous, unpredictable, prone to violence’

WP ^ | 2013/12/16 | Max Fisher

[TigerLikesRooster]

Kim Jong Un’s former classmates say he really is ‘dangerous, unpredictable, prone to violence’

By Max Fisher, Updated: December 16 at 12:39 pm

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS)

The U.S. government reached alarming conclusions about the personal character of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un based on interviews with people who knew him when he was a student in Switzerland, former U.S. Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell revealed on CNN over the weekend.

The official U.S. assessment of Kim's character is perhaps not, on its face, very surprising. After all, the North Korean leader, like his father, certainly gives the impression of a wild-eyed despot who appears to buy into his own highly official cult of personality. But North Korea-watchers have long debated whether this is merely a pose, a performance calculated to rally North Koreans and intimidate the outside world. This assessment suggests that Kim's antics are not entirely about rational decision-making but are at least in part driven by a personality just as crazy as it appears.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Fits his track record so far.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[M Kehoe]

Kim Jong Un’s former classmates say he really is ‘dangerous, unpredictable, prone to violence’ and has at least one nuclear weapon.

Yep, that's reassuring...right, John F'k Kerry?

5.56mm

[ghost of nixon]

all the qualities you’d want in a dictator

[freedumb2003]

Yeah, but if you are family you are totally safe.

[woodenickel]

Almost like a little berry.

[Responsibility2nd]

But, but...

Dennis Rodman said said little-un was cool. They talked basketball and stuff like that.

[tet68]

And the US revealing this to the world is going to
make him more peaceful?

I really don’t understand the State department.

[Louis Foxwell]

When and under what circumstances does it become a requirement to rid the world of a homocidal tyrant with his finger on the atomic button? 3 candidates come to mind.

[GeronL]

yes it does!

[Vigilanteman]

Each Kim seems to be even more insane than his father before him. My father was a distant cousin of John Brown, the crazy abolitionist, who was even more crazy than his mother.

So, while dilution is the most common effect after several generations, concentration is possible.

[Paine in the Neck]

Eventually he’ll have the NORK higher ups so afraid that they’ll have to take him out. It’ll be them or him.

[3Fingas]

The best diplomacy is done in secret.

You are right. Airing psych profiles of world leaders, some of which aren’t very stable to begin with, does not aid our diplomacy.

[vg0va3]

“Yeah, but if you are family you are totally safe.” Just ask his uncle %-)

[freedumb2003]

>>“Yeah, but if you are family you are totally safe.” Just ask his uncle %-)<<

Ahem — that was the point...

[Venturer]

I don’t understand what took them so long to figure this out.

[Gen.Blather]

Our government should make NO statements or press releases on North Korea. They should say, “No comment.” I listened to John Kerry talk on the subject and thought, Oh, my, armature hour. (Obama says bad things about Putin.)

Hey, folks in the State Department and government in general, the reason international leaders never say anything bad about each other is eventually they may have to negotiate with that person. Always, always be diplomatic. That’s what it means, being polite!

Since 2008 it’s been amature hour in our government.

[dfwgator]

[BerryDingle]

I rike you ring nexu you dispray, how much that?

[TigerLikesRooster]

If he stays on, he is going to replace entire NK officials who he deemed old. Some expert make assessment that NK official and military establishment will skip a generation and power is pass down from current incumbents to those of their grandchild generation. NK regime's new core: young, inexperienced, belligerent, and internationally isolated. This new group could be mostly from mid 20’s to late 30’s. Older ones would be in periphery of the inner circle. They are needed to run the country but can not make the like-minded group of the young. The candidates for new core are:
Kim Jong-eun, his brother Kim Jong-chol, his sister Kim Yeojong, and his half sister Kim Sol-song. The last is said to be late 30’s, probably 39.