Meet Kim Jong-un, a Moody Young Man With a Nuclear Arsenal
But the North has also said it hopes to use nuclear arms to force the world, including the United States, to accept it as a full member
of the international community on its terms — just as Washington eventually recognized China after it became a nuclear power.
Baek said that When North Koreans first saw him, we thought Kim Il-sung was reincarnated,
One of the only clues comes from Kenji Fujimoto, the Kim family’s former sushi chef, who wrote in a memoir published in 2003 after he escaped North Korea in 2001
that the elder Mr. Kim considered the child too "effeminate." But Kim Jong-il adored his third son, Kim Jong-un, and saw his own domineering attitude and other leadership qualities in the boy at an early age, according to Mr. Fujimoto, who was one of the few to predict Kim Jong-un’s rise to power.
But first came what South Korean officials have called a "reign of terror." After returning to Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, Mr. Kim graduated from the Kim Il-sung Military University in 2006
and was put on a fast track into the nation’s military leadership.
Koh Yu-hwan said that He learned how power works from early age,
that When the time comes, Kim Jong-un is expected to adopt policies that will ease his country’s isolation and embrace good things from the West,
Now, against long odds, Mr. Kim is on the verge of making his isolated, impoverished nation one of very few in the world
that can hit the United States with a nuclear missile — defying not only the Trump administration but also international sanctions and North Korea’s traditional allies in Beijing.
