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Part Two: Kim Jong Un and His Family of Dictators

Behind the Bastards

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The Paradigm Shift of the Last 10 to 15 Years

Kim Jong Un is a cunning brutal and sometimes brilliant generally balanced insane dictator who knows how to sort of way practical repression of his people. He's also a guy of strong appetites and little self control when it comes to desires of the flesh. The most compelling picture I think I found of his personality was written out in a vanity fair article by Mark Bowden mark notes at age five we are all the center of the universe everything our family parents home neighborhood school country revolves around us for most people what follows is a long process of dethronement as his majesty the child confronts the evermore obvious and humbling truth not so for Kim his world at age five has turned out to be his

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