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Kim Jong-un: Trying to make sense of North Korea's leader By Stephen Evans BBC News, Seoul - Published There must be some truth in between, mustn't there? Outside North Korea, Kim Jong-un is depicted as a monster. Or a buffoon who sends his goons around to a London hairdresser who dared to poke fun at his haircut. Or a portly playboy with a liking for Swiss cheese, fast cars and faster women. But inside North Korea, he is a monarch, the supreme leader, with an almost god-like aura. His people applaud until their hands must be raw. The state media reports how he travels the country and imparts his guidance, recently, for example, on farming terrapins. The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Korean Workers' Party, reported that the breeding establishment in Pyongyang had been set up on the initiative of his father, Kim Jong-il, "to provide the people with tasty and nutritious terrapin widely known as precious tonic from olden times". His guidance was sorely needed because it transpired that the farm had not been performing well either in breeding terrapins or ideologically. The newspaper quoted Kim Jong-un thus: "It is hard to understand that the farm did not arrange even the room for the education in the revolutionary history." On top of that, a venture to breed lobsters had failed. This was not a good day at the Taedonggang Terrapin Farm. Feeling of 'could be next' This all illustrates how difficult it is to make sense of the man. The image of the global bete noir is burnished or tarnished by propagandists on all sides. But the recent allegations from the South Korean intelligence agency that a purge of officials had been taking place took people by surprise, proving that he is unpredictable even for experts in North Korea. Outside experts are not hopeful. Some think his recent actions have been erratic in a way which was not there with his father. Under Kim Jong-il, the people around him tended to survive - generals kept their jobs and their heads - and this meant that the leadership circle supported the leader. Now, so the argument runs, the sudden execution of Kim Jong-un's mentor and uncle, Chang Song-thaek, and perhaps of the Defence Minister, Hyon Yong-chol, must make those around him fear that they might be next - and fear of sudden and unpredictable death might lead people with power to act first. Aidan Foster-Carter, honorary senior research fellow at Leeds University, says: "If loyal cadres feel they could be next, at any time and for no reason, that undermines loyalty and could even be an incentive to defect." Or worse: "If the elite doesn't feel safe, you wonder in what circumstances they might move against him." Out of his depth It then becomes a calculation of whether loyalty or extreme disloyalty minimises danger. Plotters don't tend to have long life expectancies: - the plots to kill Hitler all failed, and those plotters who were caught were invariably executed - Stalin eliminated all potential opposition - in South Korea, President Park Chung-hee was assassinated over dinner by his own intelligence chief, who was then tried and hanged Mr Foster-Carter detects a man who is out of his depth. "There's no evidence of ability," he told the BBC. "Kim Jong-il was unknown for a while, but we now know that he was very competent. He had had 20 years being groomed for leadership by his father." Kim Jong-un, in contrast, was catapulted into the job in his late 20s after spending much time abroad, in Switzerland at school, so he's something of an outsider in Pyongyang and may not be completely easy with the way politics works there. Kim Jong-un - born in 1983 or early 1984 - youngest son of Kim Jong-il and his late third wife, Ko Yong-hui - went to school in Switzerland before returning home and attending the Kim Il-sung Military University - in July 2012, state media announced Mr Kim was married to "Comrade Ri Sol-ju" - succeeded his father as supreme leader following Kim Jong-il's death on 17 December 2011 Image 'mismanagement' Over the years, many outside experts have seen a logic to North Korean policy - blood-curdling rhetoric is cranked up when the regime needs foreign help. But there's been a lack of purpose about Kim Jong-un's actions. "I couldn't tell you what his foreign policy is," says Mr Foster-Carter. "One moment, he's leaving for Russia, and then he cancels." He closed down the industrial zone on the border with South Korea to no obvious purpose: "He pulled workers out of Kaesong. Another of the most astute and nuanced experts on North Korea is similarly unconvinced by Kim Jong-un's performance in his first three years in the job. Brian Myers teaches at Dongseo Unviersity, in Busan, in South Korea. He is the author of The Cleanest Race, a book about propaganda in North Korea, and told the BBC: "With Kim Jong-un, I do get the impression that he's not his father's intellectual equal. I think he's done a terrible job at managing his own image." This matters in North Korea. "North Koreans are not looking as critically at him as we are, but they're not fools. They are a much more sophisticated people than we think. He's simply too young and unsophisticated and too un-parental in his demeanour to exert the same kind of charisma on his people as his father did." Mr Myers cites the visit of the American basketball player Dennis Rodman as a miscalculation: "Pictures of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il receiving foreigners always showed the foreigners bowing and scraping and the leaders standing very straight as though the foreigners were not very important. "In the film of Kim Jong-un meeting Dennis Rodman, you had this retired basketball player with his legs crossed, a can of Coca-Cola in front of him, sunglasses on and the baseball cap. You could see by the faces of the people sitting behind him that they were having difficulty trying to understand just what was going on. "When I saw those film clips, it occurred [to me] that, perhaps because Kim Jong-un had grown up overseas, he was not in tune with the official culture. "And that's going to cause problems for him down the road."
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को हुन् किम जङ-अनकी श्रीमती? उत्तर कोरियाली नेता किम जङ-अनकी श्रीमतीको परिचयसँग जोडिएको प्रश्नको जवाफ खोज्न गाह्रो छ किनकि त्यो प्रश्न रहस्यले घेरिएका किम जङ-अनसँग सम्बन्धित छ। किम जङ-अनका सन्तानको संख्याबारे पनि अहिलेसम्म वास्तविक जानकारी छैन। सन् २०१२ को गर्मीयामदेखि रि सोल-जु सार्वजनिक रुपमा देखिन थालेकी हुन्। त्यसको केही समयपछि सरकारी सञ्चारमाध्यमले रि सोल-जु किम जङ-अनकी श्रीमती भएको बताउन थाले तर त्यसअघिको पनि उनको जीवन एउटा पहेली जस्तै छ। गायिका केही सञ्चारमाध्यमका अनुसार उनी एक गायिका थिइन्। तर केही सञ्चारमाध्यमहरु रि सोल-जु राष्ट्रिय खेलकुद टोलीकी 'चीयरलीडर' भएको बताउँछन्। उत्तर कोरिया लिडरशीप वाच वेबसाइटकी सहयोगी सिएर म्याडनले बीबीसीसँग कुरा गर्दै भनिन्, "रि सोल-जुको बिहे सन् २००९-१० मा भएको थियो। त्यसअघि उनी एक गायिका र चीयरलीडर थिइन्, उनले जापान र दक्षिण कोरियाको यात्रा पनि गरेकी थिइन्।" रि सोल-जुको जीवनबारे यो भन्दा बढी जानकारी उपलब्ध छैन। उनको उमेरबारे उत्तर कोरियाली शासकको तर्फबाट कुनै जानकारी उपलब्ध गराइएको छैन। तर रि सोल-जुको उमेर ३० वर्षभन्दा बढी नभएको ठानिन्छ। भूमिका विशेषज्ञहरुका अनुसार किम जङ-अन सन् १९८३ वा १९८४ को ज्यानुअरी ८ मा जन्मिएका हुन्। सधैँ मुस्कुराइरहने र सार्वजनिक कार्यक्रममा किम जङ-अनसँगै देखिने रि सोल-जुको तुलना पूर्व अमेरिकी प्रथम महिला मिशेल ओबामासँग गरिन्छ। म्याडनका अनुसार उत्तर कोरियामा रि सोल-जुको भूमिका मिशेल ओबामाभन्दा कम हुन सक्दैन। पछिल्लो समय क्षेप्यास्त्र परीक्षण र सौन्दर्य उत्पादक कम्पनीको उद्घाटन लगायतका कार्यक्रममा रि सोल-जु किम जङ-अनसँगै देखिएकी थिइन्। हालसालै कैयौँ मुलुकले उत्तर कोरियालाई विलाशी सामानहरु निर्यात गर्न बन्द गरेका छन्। त्यसलाई मध्यनजर गर्दै सौन्दर्य सामाग्रीको अभाव नहोस् भनेर उत्तर कोरियाले त्यसको उत्पादन थालेको बताइन्छ। परम्परा किम जङ-अनले श्रीमती रि सोल-जुलाई आफूसँगै सार्वजनिक कार्यक्रममा उपस्थित गराएर एउटा परम्परा पनि तोडेका छन्। उनका बुवाले आफ्नी श्रीमतीहरुलाई सार्वजनिक कार्यक्रममा उपस्थित गराउने गरेका थिएनन्। म्याडन भन्छिन्, "यो नयाँ कुरा नै हो किनकि रि सोल-जुलाई उत्तर कोरियामा आमाको स्थान दिन थालिएको छ।" उत्तर कोरियाको सत्तारुढ परिवारबारे अवलम्बन गरिने गोपनीयताका कारण किम जङ-अनका सन्तानको संख्याबारे पनि वास्तविक जानकारी छैन। दक्षिण कोरियाली गुप्तचर निकायका अनुसार रि सोल-जुले गत फेब्रुअरीमा तेस्रो बच्चा पाएकी थिइन् तर बच्चाको लिङ्ग र नामबारे केही थाहा हुन सकेको छैन। पछिल्लो वर्षको सात महिनाजति रि सोल-जु सार्वजनिक रुपमा नदेखिएपछि त्यतिबेला उनी गर्भवती भएको अनुमान गरिएको थियो। शक्तिशाली रि सोल-जुले पहिलो बच्चा सन् २०१० मा र दोस्रो बच्चा सन् २०१३ मा पाएको बताइन्छ तर बाह्य संसारलाई बच्चाहरुको लिङ्गबारे थाहा हुन नसकेकोले किम जङ-अनको उत्तराधिकारीबारे केही अनुमान गर्ने अवस्था छैन। अनजानमा बास्केटबल खेलाडी डेनिस रोडम्यानले किम जङ-अनका दोस्रो सन्तान छोरी भएको सार्वजनिक गरेका थिए। गार्डियन पत्रिकालाई सन् २०१३ मा दिएको अन्तर्वार्तामा उनले किम जङ-अन एक असल व्यक्ति भएको र उनकी एक छोरी पनि रहेको बताएका थिए। बिदा मनाउने क्रममा किम जङ-अनकी छोरीलाई हातमा लिएर आफूले खेलाएको रोडम्यानले बताएका थिए। हालै किम जङ-अनले आफ्नी बहिनी किम यो-जङलाई नीति निर्माणको तहमा पुर्याउँदै थप अधिकार प्रदान गरेका थिए। सार्वजनिक कार्यक्रममा प्रायः किम जङ-अनसँगै देखिने ३० वर्षीया किम यो-जङले दाइको सार्वजनिक छवि बनाउनमा भूमिका निर्वाह गरेको ठानिन्छ।