Kim Jong-un addresses North Koreans in Pyongyang. Photograph: Reuters
Kim Jong Un’s Former Classmates Say He Really Is ‘Dangerous, Unpredictable, Prone To Violence’ -- Max Fisher, Washington Post
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.
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Update: Is Kim Jong-un the worst of the Kims? -- The Telegraph
My Comment: Bottom line .... very very very dangerous.
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