The ONLY 10 Things That Are Known About North Korea's New Leader

Chosun Ilbo says the date may have been changed to promote a more auspicious number: It could be a question of round numbers. The channel speculated that the North is trying to make it look as though Kim junior turns 30 in 2012, because that is the year Pyongyang has set as a goal for achieving a "powerful and prosperous" nation. It is also the centenary of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung's birth and Kim Jong Il's 70th birthday.

Source: NK Leadership Watch

Source: Telegraph

“He had a sense of humour; got on well with everyone, even those pupils who came from countries that were enemies of North Korea,” said the pupil, speaking anonymously to the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. “Politics was a taboo subject at school . . . we would argue about football, not politics.”

via The Times

“An Israeli pupil taught him the basketball moves,” the fellow pupil said, “and he spent a lot of time with a South Korean, I think because the South Korean could draw comic strips well and Chol Pak was a fan of the Japanese manga characters.”

via The Times

An unnamed pupil described the boy's love for action stars and his friendship with another boy rumored to be his bodyguard: “Kwang . . . was more popular than Chol because he was so good at sports. They talked about Schwarzenegger films the whole time.”

via The Times

Source: NK Leadership Watch

Source: NK Leadership Watch

Source: Chosun Ilbo

Source: NK Leadership Watch

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