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The missing brothers of Kim Jong-un
« on: April 17, 2013, 03:03:34 PM »




Kim Jong-un is portrayed in North Korea's official state media as a leader without comparison, blessed with a supreme bloodline, flanked by a supportive wife and endowed with the "brilliant" ability to revamp the economy, command an army and guide the space program.

But one thing is notably absent from these descriptions: any mention of his two brothers, both of whom were once rumoured to be heirs to the family-run empire.

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Re: The missing brothers of Kim Jong-un
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2013, 03:04:37 PM »
Their absence, North Korea watchers say, is integral to the personality cult that emphasises Kim Jong-un's unique suitability to run the nuclear-armed nation. In state propaganda, Kim Jong-un is depicted as an only son, his inheritance predetermined and uncontested.

North Korea has had just three leaders in six decades - Kim Jong-un, his father and his grandfather - but the hereditary handoffs, in reality, have always caused bitter behind-the-scenes competition.

Kim Jong-un was chosen by his father, Kim Jong-il, over his older male siblings, Kim Jong-nam, now 41, and Kim Jong-chul, 31. Kim Jong-il also had four daughters.

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« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2013, 03:15:47 PM »
As the young leader now tries to consolidate power, he has no apparent plans for his brothers, who represent potential rivals whom "other elites could coalesce around," said Ken Gause, an expert on North Korean leadership at CNA, a US-based analysis organisation.

But Kim is believed to be grooming his youngest sister as an aide. That mirrors the strategy once used by his father, who gave his own younger sister considerable power but banished his half-brother into diplomatic exile. These days, Kim Jong-il's younger sister - Kim Kyong-hui - remains a major figure in North Korea, part of an inner leadership circle that also includes her husband.

Even before Kim Jong-il died 13 months ago, Kim Jong-un's brothers led secretive lives - particularly Jong-chul, who has been photographed only a few times and has never spoken publicly. But after Kim Jong-un ascended to power, both brothers withdrew almost entirely from public view, though experts emphasise that it's unclear whether they are acting under orders.

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« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2013, 03:16:15 PM »
Jong-chul, who is thought to live in North Korea, was last seen in public at a 2011 Eric Clapton concert in Singapore.

As for Jong-nam, he once led a lavish but secluded lifestyle in Macau, Asia's gambling capital, where he wore European designer brands and gave occasional doorstep interviews to Japanese and South Korean media. But he hasn't spoken to the press since January 2012, when he criticised North Korea's hereditary power transfer and predicted trouble ahead for his half-brother. Yoji Gomi, a Japanese journalist, said Jong-nam also cut off contact with him after exchanging emails for several years.

In October, a man claiming to be a North Korean agent said he had been ordered to kill or injure Kim Jong-nam by staging a car accident in China. The allegation came after the man was arrested in South Korea for unrelated activities - he said he had been sent there to monitor defector groups. The man, whose name was not given in court documents, said his orders to harm Kim Jong-nam came from North Korea's state security agency in 2010, the year Kim Jong--un was officially anointed as successor.

The plan unraveled, court documents said, because the agent said he couldn't track down Jong-nam in China.

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« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2013, 03:16:48 PM »
Little is known about the true relationships between Kim Jong-un and his brothers. Kim Jong-il's seven children - born to one official wife and a series of mistresses - were raised in separate households across the country. A former Kim family sushi chef, Kenji Fujimoto, said last month in Tokyo that Jong-nam and Jong-un have never even met.

Jong-nam - Kim Jong-il's child from an illicit relationship with an actress - was raised in near-isolation, according to the memoir of an aunt who helped raise the boy and later defected. Jong-nam had a massive playroom of toys, restocked annually by a team of globe-trotting purchasers. But Jong-nam felt he was living in a "luxury prison", according to the memoir. When, as a teenager, he had an unsanctioned relationship of his own, his father threatened to send him to the coal mines.

Still, analysts presumed that Jong-nam, as the oldest son, was the heir apparent. But his chances probably evaporated in 2001, when he tried to enter Japan - with the hopes of visiting Disneyland - with a fake Dominican Republic passport. Jong-nam has since lived overseas.

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« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2013, 03:17:18 PM »
Kenji Fujimoto, the former Kim family chef who briefly returned to Pyongyang last summer, meeting with Kim Jong-un, said that "at present, in North Korea, Mr Kim Jong-nam possesses zero power, zero influence".

Experts say Jong-chul and Jong-un, born to the same mother, might be closer. They attended the same international school in Bern, Switzerland, with several years of overlap, and later the same military university in Pyongyang.

Their mother, Ko Young-hui, was neither Kim Jong-il's first love nor his official wife - he met her when she was performing in a state dance troupe - but many researchers say she was his favourite. Almost 10 years ago, state media began referring to her as the nation's "respected mother". North Korea watchers say the designation was significant: They thought her oldest boy, Jong-chul, was being groomed as successor.

Experts think that Kim Jong-il remained married to his official wife - Kim Young-sook - throughout his relationship with Ko Young-hui. Young-sook had only one child, a daughter.

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Re: The missing brothers of Kim Jong-un
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2013, 03:18:05 PM »
How Kim Jong-un outmaneuvered his brother to gain control of the country is unclear, with speculation based on the frailest of character sketches because North Korea has managed to keep a near-perfect seal on biographical information about Jong-chul.

Fujimoto, in a 2003 tell-all book about life with the Kims, described the young Jong-chul as effeminate and uninterested in politics. Chinese experts and visitors to North Korea have also been quoted - in US State Department cables released by WikiLeaks and in the Japanese press - as describing Jong-chul as a video game devotee who was often sick.

Beginning around 2005, experts began to say that Jong-un was favoured by his father.

Some experts say that Jong-chul could have an unlisted position in the Workers' Party, based on rumours from high-level defectors, and that he could one day emerge publicly.

"But right now," said Cheong Seong-chang, an expert on North Korean leadership at the Seoul-based Sejong Institute, on the outskirts of Seoul, "he is supporting his brother by staying silent and keeping out of the public eye."


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Re: The missing brothers of Kim Jong-un
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2013, 03:20:30 PM »
Kim Jong-Nam





The eldest son of Kim Jong-Il, Kim Jong-Nam carries the family penchant for bizarre behavior proudly. In 2001, he was arrested in Narita International Airport in Japan on a fake Dominican passport with the Chinese name Pang Xiong (which fittingly translates to “fat bear” in English). When questioned, he admitted he was trying to go to Disneyland of all places. -- http://listverse.com/


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Re: The missing brothers of Kim Jong-un
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2013, 04:26:15 PM »


Thanks for your photo, Bay Tobs. May-ong kagid kay Kim... ;D

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Re: The missing brothers of Kim Jong-un
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2013, 04:27:20 PM »
Hmm, bason long lost bradir ka sa mga Kims haw? ;D

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Re: The missing brothers of Kim Jong-un
« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2013, 05:04:39 PM »
Hmm, bason long lost bradir ka sa mga Kims haw? ;D

may ara pa sija brader na mongoloyd



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Re: The missing brothers of Kim Jong-un
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2013, 06:46:39 AM »
Hmm, damo gid hang managsuom kom maohom...

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