Read Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty Online
Authors: Bradley K. Martin
Tags: #History, #Asia, #Korea
Bodyguard Bureau officer,
239
childhood and youth,
203–225
brother’s death,
205–207
mother’s death,
207
power, youthful interest in,
216–217
schooling.
See
Mangyongdae
Revolutionary School; Namsan School
children of,
684–704
comfort, love of,
688
confidence,
658
cruelty,
289
demonization of,
678–679
dentures,
495
dogmatic nature,
506
early career,
235–261
disappearances,
10
dominating discussions,
244
empathy,
679
face, emphasis on keeping,
490
family,
684–704
scale of, affecting economy,
276
gifts to,
275–277
in hiding, during Iraq war,
659
inspection visits to military units,
518
international experience, contacts,
215–216
,
225
,
317
,
318–319
,
323–326
,
331
,
335
,
472
,
483
,
643
international system, wish to join,
671
jokes, talent for,
648
KPA supreme commander,
484
legal reforms sought,
573–575
lifestyle change (ca. 1985),
340
marshal, rank,
484
matchmaking,
319–320
micromanagement,
222
military, consolidating ties with,
504
military commission chair,
483–484
military dictator,
485
modesty,
484
murder, alleged,
287
NPT withdrawal decision,
489
as polymath,
288
public executions, suspends,
631
rashness,
505
intensified by fear of U.S. attack,
494
“malignant narcissism,”
679
“seed” theory of writing,
248
succession maneuvers,
195–196
,
216
,
236
,
237–243
,
273
,
275
,
277–282
,
293
,
320
,
509
Swiss bank account,
494
as theoretician,
258–260
third-generation succession to,
684–704
blood ties emphasized in propaganda,
684
timing of related moves,
693
tobacco use,
362
voice,
649
womanizing,
220–221
,
318–320
,
484
,
541
(
see also
Mansions Special Volunteer Corps)
organization/guidance head,
270
workload,
340
Kim Jong-min (public security high official; defector),
374–375
,
447–460
Kim Jong-nam (Kim Jong-il’s eldest son),
685–698
assassination of defector cousin, implicated in,
695
armed forces ministry job,
694
childhood and youth,
686–691
isolated, due to father’s obsession with
pampered,
688
schooling in Russia, Switzerland,
689–690
computers, electronic games,
694
curiosity,
689
economics study,
694
energy,
689
flaunting power,
692
“guidance” trips with father,
694
height,
689
horsemanship,
694
humor, sense of,
689
detention an embarrassment to Kim Jong-il,
696
failure to return to Pyongyang after,
696
intelligence,
689