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Part One: Kim Jong Un and His Family of Dictators

Behind the Bastards

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The Story of Kim Jong Un and Kim Jong Il

In 2008 kim jong il's health took a major turn for the worse he clearly realized that his time was ending and hurriedly rushed the process of making his son his official successor. That same year he called a workers party congress and had them vote to confirm kimjong un as his successor this was the first time many north koreans would have heard of the boy in jongIl's case. In 2002 kimJongUn returned to north korea full time to attend the kim el song military academy where he learned how to manage the army that he had technically been a general of from the age of about seven. He would regularly keep senior military officials up

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