Alianza kutayarishwa akiwa bado mdogo sana. Hata picha zake zimeanza kuonekana relatively recently baada ya mpishi wao kuwauzia magazeti za US.Hivi huyu dogo anayerithishwa ana miaka mingapi? Amefikisha hata 30 kweli? Can you imagine nuclear codes on hands of a 20 old man? How safe is the Korean Penisula, Asia & the world as whole now?
Usiamini kila unachoambiwa na western media kuhusu uchumi wa North Korea. Juu ya watu kuvuka mpaka, hiyo ni kawaida maana hata USA wanavuka kwenda Canada na vice versa.
Usijidanganye na kujifariji..huyo ni bonge ya dogo, just 28. Kama kiongozi wa Taifa ameandaliwa kwa muda mfupi sana. Katika kipindi cha mwaka mmoja tuu--tangu 2010--ndiyo ameanza kidogo kuwa public..Alianza kutayarishwa akiwa bado mdogo sana. Hata picha zake zimeanza kuonekana relatively recently baada ya mpishi wao kuwauzia magazeti za US.
I know propaganda ya kusema the workd is not safe zitasambaa sana ila we need to wait and see. the world barely knows him...
RR, hawa wenzetu hata wachina, huwa unaweza kutabiri watakachokifanya kwasababu huwa wanaongoza kwa "Dynasties"Alianza kutayarishwa akiwa bado mdogo sana. Hata picha zake zimeanza kuonekana relatively recently baada ya mpishi wao kuwauzia magazeti za US.
I know propaganda ya kusema the workd is not safe zitasambaa sana ila we need to wait and see. the world barely knows him...
The Kim dynasty
Three generations of North Korea's secretive ruling family
The grandfather
- Justin McCurry
- guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 June 2009 08.54 EDT
- Article history
Kim Il-sung, North Korea's revolutionary founder, is still known as its "eternal president" 15 years after his death from a heart attack. The title of president has been left unfilled out of respect; his son and successor, Kim Jong-il, was instead given the title general secretary of the Korean Workers' party and chairman of the national defence commission. As the originator of the philosophy of juche, or self-reliance, Kim Sr presided over North Korea's almost total isolation from the outside world and set the country on course for famine and grinding poverty among many of its 23 million people. Kim's funeral was attended by thousands of hysterical mourners and his embalmed body is encased in a glass coffin on public display in the outskirts of Pyongyang. His birthday and the date of his death are public holidays.
The father
Kim Jong-il has ruled North Korea with an iron fist since his father's death in 1994. Soviet records show Kim was born in Siberia in 1941 and spent the first few years of his life in the Soviet Union, but his official biography states that he was born in his father's log cabin on Paektu, North Korea's highest mountain, in 1942, an event that was foretold by a swallow and marked by a double rainbow and the formation of a new star.
He continued his father's personal philosophy of juche, adding his own military-first policy, which has brought the country to the brink of becoming a nuclear power. If North Korean propaganda is to be believed, Kim is a man of extraordinary talents. He has been credited with scoring 11 holes in one during his first-ever round of golf, writing six operas and personally designing the Juche tower in Pyongyang. He describes himself as an internet expert.
But the "dear leader" also displayed decidedly human frailties: when not dipping in to his collection of 20,000 film videotapes, his idea of a perfect evening at home included dance performances by scantily clad women known as the Pleasure Brigade, some of whom were recruited overseas.
A former heavy smoker he gave up in 2003 and brandy lover who easily filled out his trademark olive green trouser suit, Kim has lost a lot of weight since reportedly suffering a stroke in August last year.
Next to nothing is known about Kim's marital arrangements; it is not clear if his second and third wives were, in fact, mistresses. Reports say he is now living with Kim Ok, 45, his personal secretary in the 1980s.
The first son
Kim Jong-nam, 38, looked certain to become North Korea's future leader after he was given a senior position in the powerful ministry of public security in 1998 and accompanied his father on a trip to China in January 2001. Four months later, however, his leadership ambitions lay in tatters after he was caught trying to enter Japan on a fake Dominican passport so he could visit Tokyo Disneyland.
The episode proved a huge embarrassment to his father, who appears to have decided there and then that Jong-nam was unfit to follow in his footsteps. In 2007 the South China Morning Post reported that he was living incognito in Macau.
The second son
In 2003 the regime appeared to be grooming Kim Jong-chul for leadership after referring to his mother, Koh Jong-hi, as the "respected mother" the same plaudit given Kim Jong-il's mother a few years before he became leader. That view gained currency in 2007 when Jong-chul, 28, was appointed to a senior position in the Korean workers' party. But his father once dismissed him as "too much like a girl" to be a leader, and in the past year he has been eclipsed by Kim Jong-un.
Jong-chul, like his younger brother, was educated, using a pseudonym, at the International School of Berne in Switzerland. A rare photograph taken in 1994 purportedly shows the curly-haired youth standing outside the school. Former classmates reportedly confirmed sightings of Jong-chul at an Eric Clapton concert and the World Cup finals in Germany in 2006.
The leader-in-waiting
Kim Jong-un, the youngest of Kim's three known sons, has reportedly been named as his father's successor. In a country that, despite its communist doctrine, retains a Confucian respect for seniority, he could have expected only to be in line after older brothers, but emerged as favourite to lead North Korea after impressing his father with his single-mindedness and leadership qualities.
Born in 1983 or 84, he was reportedly educated at the same Swiss boarding school as Jong-chul, where he developed a passion for skiing and basketball, and learned to speak English, German and French. In a 2003 book, Kenji Fujimoto, a Japanese chef who worked as Kim's personal cook, described Jong-un as "a chip off the old block, a spitting image of his father in terms of face, body shape and personality".
With Kim Jong Il's death, reins of North Korean power pass to enigmatic young son
BEIJING, China - North Korea's heir apparent Kim Jong Un has swiftly risen to power since being made a four-star general a year ago, but he is even more of an enigma than his late father was during 17 years of absolute power.
Within hours of news breaking Monday of leader Kim Jong Il's death over the weekend, the North's official Korean Central News Agency was reporting that the country, people and military "must faithfully revere respectable comrade Kim Jong Un."
The agency also referred to Jong Un as a "great successor" of the North's guiding philosophy of self reliance and a "distinguished leader of the military and people."
So far, Jong Un, Kim Jong Il's third son, has a thin leadership record - much less than the 20 years Kim Jong Il spent being groomed for power before he took over in 1994.
Despite a vigorous political campaign to install Jong Un as the new leader in the people's minds, he remains an enigma, even to those at home. It is unclear what direction he will take the nation of 24 million people, how much power will fall to the military and officials surrounding him, and what China's role will be with its ally.
The elder Kim unveiled Jong Un as his successor a year ago, putting him in top posts. Over the past year, Jong Un regularly accompanied his father on trips around the country. And Jong Un steadily built his political clout by reportedly becoming involved in domestic and foreign policy and securing a position in the ruling Workers' Party.
North Koreans are told he graduated from Kim Il Sung Military University, speaks several foreign languages, including English, and is a whiz at computing and technology. However, his birth date, his marital status and even the name of his mother - said to be Kim Jong Il's late second wife, Ko Yong Hui - are all secrets.
"There is a rumour that he is married, but officially we don't know," said Yoon Deok-ryong, an expert in North Korean economic reform at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy in Seoul.
Media in South Korea speculated that the four-star general orchestrated a deadly artillery attack on a front-line South Korean island last year that led to fears of war.
Because of his young age and inexperience, he might end up the figurehead for a government led by powerful, older relatives, Yoon said.
"Even though Kim Jong Un has been appointed as the successor, they may form a committee to rule the country at first," Yoon said. "His power succession is not completed yet."
Another big question is whether Jong Un will be able to secure the lasting support of Kim Jong Il's younger sister and her powerful husband, Jang Song Thaek.
A technocrat educated in Russia during Soviet times, Jang was a rising star until he was summarily demoted in early 2004 in what analysts believe was a warning from Kim against gathering too much influence. But Kim put Jang back at his side in 2006 and relied heavily on him after reportedly suffering a stroke in 2008.
John Delury, an assistant professor at Yonsei University's Graduate School of International Studies in South Korea, said Korean mourning traditions could require Jong Un to play a more peripheral role for some time, making it difficult to tell whether he is being sidelined.
"The question will be what's the role of the uncle, Jang Song Thaek," said Delury. "There's been talk of some sort of regency, so it's very possible that a small, leading group will emerge with Kim Jong Un as the leading person but especially in the first couple years using the tradition of mourning to actually somewhat take a little bit of a back seat."
Jong Un was unveiled to the world last year at a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party, saluting troops by his father's side in an appearance captured live by international media.
His emergence settled the question of which of Kim Jong Il's three known sons would succeed him as the third generation leader in a family dynasty that has ruled since North Korea's post World War II inception in 1948.
His grandfather Kim Il Sung remains a revered figure 17 years after his death. Jong Un appears to be modeling himself after his grandfather, down to his hairdo. Portraits of the young Kim Il Sung hanging on the walls of the Pyongyang office where the president founded the Workers' Party show the same look: a thick head of hair on top and shaved at the sides above the ear.
The most popular of the songs written to honour Jong Un is called "Footsteps," an obvious reference to his role in carrying out his family's legacy.
Narushige Michishita, an expert at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, said that Jong Un's leadership could bring instability.
But recent opportunities for North Koreans to use the Internet and cellphones, he said, have been allowed by "relatively young policymakers" in Jong Un's generation. "Those people will be running the country in coming decades," Michishita said. "So in that sense we can expect some new things, but we don't know if that will result in political transformation."
Jong Un is known to have studied for a few years in Switzerland, and is believed to speak English, German and French, though experts caution against thinking of him as reform-minded just because he lived in the West.
"I wouldn't draw huge conclusions from the fact that he spent a year or two in Europe as a boy," said Delury. "But you know, he's significantly younger, and generational shifts happen no matter wherever you are in the world, including North Korea, so he is going to have a different orientation."
According to the memoir of a man who says he spent 11 years as the family's sushi chef, Jong Un is tough and ambitious like his father.
The chef, who goes by the pen name Kenji Fujimoto, described Jong Un as a competitive, even ruthless, child.
Dressed in a military outfit, the young Jong Un "glared at me with a menacing look when we shook hands" the first time they met, Fujimoto wrote in "Kim Jong Il's Chef." ''I can never forget the look in his eyes which seemed to be saying, 'This one is a despicable Japanese.'"
Basketball was his chief passion, especially following the Chicago Bulls, the chef recalled. He also loved movies, just like his dad. In looks, tastes and personality, the youngest son was the "spitting image" of his father, and it was clear even back then he was the leader's favourite, he said.
Apart from these few tantalizing details, much remains unknown about Jong Un or the real breadth of his power.
"There's much uncertainty," Yoon said. "Because we don't know who's really in charge."
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Associated Press writers Jean H. Lee in Beijing, Malcolm Foster in Tokyo, and Foster Klug in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.
Kijana huyu naonekana kuwa inspire sana vijana wa North Korea, habari zaidi hapa...
Young men are flocking to North Korean barbershops to get a haircut styled after the dictator-in-waiting, Kim Jong Un, according to Reuters.
Alale mahala pema peponi kamanda huyu. Alikufa Baba yake Mzee Kim Il Sung wakadhani ukomunisti umeisha akaja kamanda Kim Jong Il kazi palepale!! Sasa anakuja kijana Kim Jong Un ambaye hata Wamarekani walikuwa hawamjui!
Eti mental disability ndio ugonjwa uliomwua hahahhaha JF inafurahisha sana. Nimeshangaa kuona watu wazima wanalia kama watoto. Kweli walimpenda kiongozi wao na mapungufu aliyokuwa nayo. Hii ni maajabu 7 ya dunia!
Mazishi ya kitaifa kufanyika dec 28
ni internal president au interim presidaa.
New KIM