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Kim Jong-un's Swiss classmate: 'He has to make change' (RT exclusive)

December 27, 2011 08:08

North Korea's late leader Kim Jong-il will be buried on Wednesday, but what the world still wants to know is where the often unpredictable country will go next. Little is known about his successor, except he is in his 20s and studied in Switzerland.

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emine cirpili 08.01.2012 16:47

thank you donald for some real information. it's sad to see all the other trolls on this comment board trying to hard to attack north korea. it just goes to show who the real bad guy is.

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StG 44 06.01.2012 22:11

"Next of Kim!" I've been meaning to say this for a while.....the guy who comes up with these headlines is genius.

But the guy did not say Kim was his classmate. He said he could have been. In other words, he didn't really know any of them at the time.

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Donald 28.12.2011 08:05

   &n bsp;  There is unfortunately a real lack of reference in RT`s reporting on the DPRK to historical events which helped shape the modern day Korean peninsula. Instead we get a steady stream of reports with tiresome, dispu table references to an "isolated" or "impoverished" or "uncertain" North Korea, which make one wonder if they are actually reading CNN, the BBC, or any other vehicle for the war propaganda of the US/NATO axis. Have any of these reporters ever wondered how they can call North Korea isolated when it counts as its best friend and ally the most populous country on earth, which will also in due course, be the most powerful country on earth? From late 1949 to mid-1950, the Daejeon massacres were one event that shaped Korean history. Independent estimates are that more than one million people were murdered by South Korean troops and police with the full knowledge and participation o f American forces in and around the region of Daejeon. Those killed were bound, blindfolded, and lined up along ditches and then shot in the back of the head from point blank range. Their bodies were then rolled into the ditches and covered up en masse. Those targeted were anyone suspected of sympathizing with the Korean Workers Party, or anyone caught trying to move from the South to the North. Eyewitness reports from people who were there say that, later in the war when Chinese and North Korean troops took the area, they were greeted as liberators by the population and did no retaliatory killing. This is one of many events that forged the blood-brother relationship between the DPRK and PRC which still exists today. I might add that the USSR was also their blood-brother, with the participation of Soviet pilots flying early MIG`s (which at that time were superior to anything the US had). I`ll tell you right now that such events will not be forgotten by the DPRK and PRC and the time will eventually come when the particularly odious South Korean ruling clique which perpetrated such crimes, along with any American forces which happen to be there guarding them, will be pushed into the sea, thus freeing the Asian mainland from colonial rule. 

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Yeong Jeog Mugi 28.12.2011 00:56

Sonoma wrote in #8
This guy is going to be just as evil as his father... Imprisoning the people of North Korea and starving them to death.   All while those in South Korea flourish under democracy.  Really sad.   But at least the United States was able to keep the South free and half the peninsula from suffering under Communism and Autocracy.  
I predict that under Kim Jong Un's co-rule, North Korea will develop the same economic level per capita than South Korea under one generation, an economic boom even greater than China's.

Ever y educated and knowlegeable young North Koreans want to become business men and travel the world and there will be a synergy between them and Kim Jong Un. Business rules will be relaxed under his co-rule. There will be an astonishing economic boom in North Korea, Kaesong will flourish and become the golden square and industrial pride of DPRK. The entire world will look at North Korea in disbelief and confusion. many countries of the world will invest there and many companies as well.
North Koreans will no longer want to defect from their country, in fact there will be poor South Koreans trying to enter North Korea to benefit this boom just like Mexicans try to cross in the USA.
All that inside 20 years.

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Yeong Jeog Mugi 28.12.2011 00:48

The cult of personality will be replaced by a cult of the party and it's ideas.
Instead of one person portrayed as a God, the person of Kim Jong Un will be portrayed as the stability figure and the figure of hope representing the party's ideals and the nation's ideals.

A lot of space will be given to ideas instead of the person. Kim Jong Un wants to modernize North Korea and grow it's economy. Progress will be the new theme.

Under Kim Jong Un and his uncle's rule, starvation will be a thing of the past, they are going to work real hard to rally support for the party inside their own country and to put everybody to work and to work hard at growing food and producing basic necessities.

North Korea's economy will grow under Kim Jong Un while the USA will continue to slump and the dollar dwindle.

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Yeong Jeog Mugi 28.12.2011 00:38

What is currently happening in North Korea is actually extremely healthy.

Kim Jong Il was the Golden Head of the North Korean power structure.
Kim Jong Un is now, along with his uncle, the Silver torso of the power structure.

Po wer has just been split in half in North Korea and is to be shared by two people instead of being concentrated all in one place.
North Korean authorities are extremely concerned about the legitimacy of their rule and how they are perceived by their own people. What the current structure will do is use Kim Jong Un as a civilian spokesperson to bolster the image of the party as a whole as the right choice to keep stability, while his uncle will consolidate the military into a functional organization that will take a more proactive role in the economic structure of the country, meaning soldiers will work more and shoot less.

Given that his uncle will not take orders from Kim Jong Un, this assures a greater stability and predictability, it basically separates the military from politics.

Wha t the outside world must do is to never attack the legitimacy of the North Korean rule, to never question it and to never try to provoke revolutions nor power shifts in North Korea, also to never again provoke it with war games, especially war games close to it's borders.

Kim Jong Un is a man of the world, fluent in four languages with a taste for western culture. He wants to open his country to foreign commerce and immitate China. This is now possible because of the separation between military and civilian affairs.

Nort h Korea is now a two headed state, just like Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The age of gold is gone, North Korea is in the Silver age now. If ever it is even more stable and predictable now than before.

Provided the rest of the world stop demonizing this regime. What makes the regime unpredictable is it's precarity due to economic hardship and outside influences to try and portray it as evil. The regime is fighting for it's survival, that's what makes it dangerous.

Ho w to disarm this timebomb is to stop threatening the regime's existence and to open international commerce to it, like what as done with China.

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Sonoma 28.12.2011 00:27

This guy is going to be just as evil as his father... Imprisoning the people of North Korea and starving them to death.   All while those in South Korea flourish under democracy.  Really sad.   But at least the United States was able to keep the South free and half the peninsula from suffering under Communism and Autocracy.  

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Nay Lin Maung 28.12.2011 00:24

In order to get changing in the North Korea, it might take many decades to come.

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xposelite 27.12.2011 20:49

the real deal is that N. Korea is independent from world centrobank mafia (bis.org) and that is why it's behind "iron curtain". They just don't wanna be a customer of the private printing press that puts out "green paper" called world's reserve currency.
IF that curtain is down, N.Korea will follow the fate of the rest of the Western DUMP, i.e., soaring GDP debt, bailouts, banking ponzi scheme, pornography, prostitution, drugs, alcohol, homosexuality, pedofilia, "reality" shows, soaps, pop corn, videos, freemasonry and the rest of the goodies that comes in a package named "democracy" for the purpose that brainwashed by BIG screen TV sheeple feel "enpowered". So, I personally hope that Kim Jung-Un is smart enough to see that the Western Dump is about to "expire" for good so the rest of still normal, non-psychopathic humans can finally have a breath of fresh air without the stench of  pederastic CULT-ure of "Atlantis"

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Yeah maybe they should just take in some radical laws 27.12.2011 18:27

and if they don't get followed correctly we can cut off there arms. huh asdasasd

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dixienormns 27.12.2011 15:52

hope he follows the game homefront hahaha it needs to happen

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The Monk 27.12.2011 15:46

Interesting comment from a supporter of the "Worker's Paradise" in North Korea. It seems it is far better to let millions of your people starve to death than allow a little change. Remember...the fence on the border is keeping people in North Korea, not for keeping the South Koreans out.

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Asdasasd 27.12.2011 10:34

Well I think letting Zioninist run the nort korea cant make it any worse than it is right now....

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Red Marx 27.12.2011 10:04

I personally could advice Kim Jong-Un to keep DPRK ''safe'' haven from all MSM and NWO parasites. Don't you leave them in as they will only seek to destroy North Korean society and its Juche principle. In any case DPRK has already enough important ''friends'' in Russia and China. As for the rest of NWO fascist regimes led by the US-UK-Zionist evil trio who wants to have to do with them. The further you are from them and their stooges only the better !!

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