NORTH KOREA DETAINS 3RD U.S. CITIZEN

Dan Lorenze said:

Why does this guy want to get into a war with us so bad? :hmm

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Old Texan said:

Several options.....

He has a death wish.

He fucks with us because he thinks very certainly he can and no one will retaliate. He is stroking his ego and posturing for the NK people.

He is just stupid enough to believe he is more powerful than he actually is capable.

There are Chinese that get a great amount of laughs and satisfaction allowing him to pull his stunts.

I'm curious if the sad little fat coward has ever left the nation or even his immediate quarters. I think he lives in mortal fear he'll be snuffed if he leaves his nest. And if he was to leave the country, he'd not be allowed back or to leave where ever he went to visit.

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pronstar said:

Like many in NK's ruling class, it's generally accepted that he went to school abroad, in Europe and likely Switzerland.

IMHO with a western education, there's no way they believe their own propaganda. It's more to control their own people.

Sure he's fucking crazy, but he also knows what real military might is, and he doesn't have it.

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Early life and education

The Liebefeld-Steinh?lzli public school in K?niz, Switzerland, which Kim Jong-un is reported to have attended.
Scarce information on Kim Jong-un's early life comes from North Korean defectors and people who have claimed to witness him abroad, such as during his school attendance in Switzerland. Some of the information has been conflicting and contradictory, perhaps confusing him with his brother, Kim Jong-chul, who also attended school in Switzerland around the same time. Nevertheless, there has been some consensus on information about his early life. North Korean authorities have stated that his birthdate is 8 January 1982, but South Korean intelligence officials believe the actual date is a year later. Former basketball star Dennis Rodman said that the birthdate is 8 January 1983 after meeting Kim in September 2013 in North Korea.[15] Kim Jong-Un was the second of three children Ko Yong-hui bore to Kim Jong-il; his elder brother Kim Jong-chul was born in 1981, while his younger sister, Kim Yo-jong, is believed to have been born in 1987.[16][17]
According to reports first published in Japanese newspapers, he went to school in Switzerland near Bern. First reports claimed he attended the private English-language International School in G?mligen under the name "Chol-pak" or "Pak-chol" from 1993 to 1998.[18][19][20] He was described as shy, a good student who got along well with his classmates and was a basketball fan.[21] He was chaperoned by an older student, who was thought to be his bodyguard.[22]
Later, it was reported that Kim Jong-un attended the Liebefeld Steinh?lzli school in K?niz near Bern under the name "Pak-un" or "Un-pak" from 1998 until 2000 as the son of an employee of the North Korean embassy in Bern. Authorities of K?niz confirmed that a student from North Korea, registered as the son of a member of the embassy, attended the school from August 1998 until the autumn of 2000, but were unable to give details about his identity. Pak-un first attended a special class for foreign-language children and later attended the regular classes of the 6th, 7th, 8th, and part of the final 9th year, leaving the school abruptly in the autumn of 2000. He was described as a well-integrated and ambitious student who liked to play basketball.[23] However, his grades and attendance rating are reported to have been poor.[24][25] The ambassador of North Korea in Switzerland, Ri Chol, had a close relationship with him and acted as a mentor.[26] One of Pak-un's classmates told reporters that he had told him that he was the son of the leader of North Korea.[27][28] According to some reports, Jong-un was described by classmates as a shy child who was awkward with girls and indifferent to political issues, but who distinguished himself in sports and had a fascination with the American National Basketball Association and Michael Jordan. One friend claimed that he had been shown pictures of Pak-un with Kobe Bryant and Toni Kukoč.[29]
In April 2012, new documents came to light indicating that Kim Jong-un had lived in Switzerland since 1991 or 1992, earlier than previously thought.[30]
The Laboratory of Anatomic Anthropology at the University of Lyon, France, after comparing the picture of the boy Pak-un taken at the Liebefeld Steinh?lzli school in 1999 with a picture of Kim Jong-un from 2012 came to the conclusion that the two faces show a conformity of 95%. The head of the institute, Raoul Perrot, a forensic anthropologist, considers it most likely that the two pictures show the same person.[31][32]
It is believed that the student at the G?mligen International School may not have been Kim Jong-un, but his elder brother Kim Jong-chul. It is not known whether the student known as Pak-un in Liebefeld Steinh?lzli lived in Switzerland prior to 1998.[33] All the children of Kim Jong-il are said to have lived in Switzerland, as well as the mother of the two youngest sons, who lived in Geneva for some time.[26]
Most analysts agree that Kim Jong-un attended Kim Il-sung University, a leading officer-training school in Pyongyang, from 2002 to 2007.[34]
For many years, only one confirmed photograph of him was known to exist outside North Korea, apparently taken in the mid-1990s, when he was eleven.[35] Occasionally other supposed images of him surfaced but were often disputed.[36][37][38] It was only in June 2010, shortly before he was given official posts and publicly introduced to the North Korean people, that more pictures were released of Kim, taken when he was attending school in Switzerland.[39][40] The first official image of him as an adult was a group photograph released on 30 September 2010, at the end of the party conference that effectively anointed him, in which he is seated in the front row, two places from his father. This was followed by newsreel footage of him attending the conference.[41]
In 2013, Kim Jong-un was awarded an honorary doctorate in Economics by HELP University, a private Malaysian university.[42]

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