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The life of Kim Jong Un, North Korea's secretive supreme
How North Korean leader Kim Jong Un became one of the world's most feared dictators..
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is regarded as one of the world's most repressive and bombastic rulers.
After a year of ushering in historic international peace agreements and much discussion over North Korea's nuclear arsenal, Kim's rule continues to cause concern on the world stage.
Despite his high-profile career, there is still relatively little known of the reclusive 36-year-old. Here is the story of how he became one of the world's scariest dictators.
Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories. Kim Jong Un assumed leadership at such a young age that many thought his rule would be doomed.
The current head of the family dynasty that's ruled North Korea since the 1950s has overseen several nuclear tests, dozens of missile tests, and presided over his country's shocking, uninvited entrance into the nuclear club.
After having the most tense, heated exchanges with a US commander in chief in his country's history, Kim met with President Donald Trump twice.
Between threats of nuclear annihilation, brinkmanship, and attacks on South Korea, Kim has kept a firm grip on power throughout, and his people have very few freedoms.
With all this attention, still relatively little is known of Kim. But thanks to a new book from Washington Post Beijing bureau chief Anna Fifield, "The Great Successor," we now know more about his secretive childhood.
Here's what we know of how Kim grew to be one of the world's scariest dictators.
Kim Jong Un was born on January 8 1982, 1983, or 1984.
His parents were future North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il and one of his mistresses, Ko Young Hee who was born in Osaka, Japan and returned to Nrth as a Korean in Japan. He had an older brother named Kim Jong Chul and would later have a younger sister named Kim Yo Jong.
While Kim Jong Un's official birth year is 1982, various reports suggest that the year was changed for symbolic reasons, including that it was 70 years after the birth of Kim Il Sung and 40 years after the birth of Kim Jong Il.
During this period, North Korea was ruled by "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung. While Kim Jong Il was the heir apparent, Kim Jong Un's path to command was far less certain.
Then it was off to Switzerland to attend boarding school.
Called "Pak Un" and described as the son of an employee of the North Korean embassy, Kim Jong Un attended an English-language international school in Gumligen, near Bern.
He lived in the suburbs with his aunt, Ko Yong Suk, his uncle, Ri Gang, and their three children, according to Anna Fifield's book, "The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un."
Some former classmates described him as a quiet student who spent most of his time at home, but had a sense of humor.
But others pained Kim as an unremarkable boy who was bad at school and lashed out at others.
According to Fifield's book, classmates said Kim was embarrassed to answer questions in class and frequently lashed out because he struggled to speak in German. "He kicked us in the shins and even spat at us," a former classmate told her.
Kim Jong Un loved basketball and idolized Michael Jordan.
The young Korean reportedly had posters of Jordan all over his walls during his Swiss school days. Although Kim Jong Un was overweight and only 5-foot-6, he was a decent basketball player.
"He was a fiercely competitive player, very explosive," former classmate Nikola Kovacevic told The Mirror. "He was the play maker.
After school in Switzerland, he returned home for military schooling.
Upon his return to North Korea, Kim Jong Un attended Kim Il Sung Military University with his older brother.
Some reports say they started to attend their father's military field inspections around 2007.
While his father faced death, Kim Jong Un was rapidly promoted up the chain of political and military leadership, despite having little experience in either.
He was made a four-star general, deputy chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party, and a member of the Central
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The recent footage of Kim Jong Un seems to have shadow warriors. There are various speculations that there are some schemes in which some shadow warriors with apparently different faces appear.
Also, both of Jung Un's children are small and not suitable for succession. Some relatives who had not been in the country were called. The most important part of this year's greeting was that Kim Jong-un did not appear directly, so there are various rumors about serious illness or hiding the fact that "Kim Jong Un is already dead."
His sister Kim Yo-Jong seems to be on the front.
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