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German Expert Casts Doubt on Identity of Kim Jong Un

Kim the student in Switzerland

So-called “Kimologists” based in Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing are busy analyzing the impenetrable machinations of North Korea’s power structure. There is broad agreement that Kim Jong Il, referred to in North Korea as the “Dear Leader,” who succeeded his father Kim Il Sung (known as “Great Leader”) in 1994, suffered a stroke in 2008 and was forced to take time off governing for months.

At least one Japanese expert believes that Kim Jong Il died a long time ago and that doppelgangers are being used.

Was the fat-cheeked young man shown alongside North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il in an official photo really his son and chosen successor, Kim Jong Un?

The last few days have highlighted once again how little the world knows about the regime in Pyongyang. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, 68, summoned an extremely rare meeting of his Workers Party and presented his son Kim Jong Un, who is aged 26 or perhaps 27, as his successor.

Kim, the heir apparent

A German expert on face research claims he is not identical with the pupil shown in a widely published photo taken during his school days in Switzerland.

A Hamburg-based expert on facial research who was asked by SPIEGEL to compare several photos supposedly portraying Kim in his youth with the latest official one has come to an astonishing conclusion. There is a “high probablility that they are not one and the same person,” he said.

Many Kimologists say it doesn’t really matter who the young man is because he will be firmly embedded in a power apparatus made up of older relatives.

Read the Der Spiegel article: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,721076,00.html

He is supposed to have attended the International School of Berne incognito but even that is disputed, and Kim the heir -apparent may well not be Kim the schoolboy and maybe just the Kim who never was ……….

Tags: Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, North Korea

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