The North Korea's leader is both loved and feared by his people. © Youtube
What
do we really know about North Korean leader Kim Jong-un? Who is the man behind
an incalculable nuclear capability?
We
often see self-produced propaganda from Pyongyang but very little facts have
been presented to the public about his identity. Directed by Anthony Dufour, Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized
Biography seeks to fill in those gaps.
The
youngest son of former leader Kim Jong-Il, Kim Jong-un received a western
education in Switzerland. His classmates and teachers - some of whom are interviewed
in the film - remember him as a pleasant student with a keen interest in
basketball and video games.
He
was not prepared to inherit his father's mantle of power but quickly doubled
down on his quest to become a nuclear power, enhanced recruitment and
training of North Korean soldiers, and successfully implemented a series of
damaging cyber-attacks upon his enemies.
In
spite of these extreme courses of action, many of the dictator's countrymen
view him as a god. Could this be the result of a brainwashed population taken
in by a carefully constructed propaganda machine?
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