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Part One: Kim Jong Un and His Family of Dictators

Behind the Bastards

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The military kim jong un was about to inherit would be a fundamentally different force from the one that his grandfather had built and his father had inherited this is because on october third two thousand six the regime detonated its first nuclear device. There is some debate still over whether or not it was a successful test of a low yield nuke or an accidental fizzle that wound up being far smaller than intended in either case the detonation was an actual nuclear explosion. The pride of being the first north korean leader to develop nukes would go to his father but kimjong un would be the first of his line to learn how to use the weapons to get what he wanted we'll

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