What Will Become Of North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un?

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's with Chinese President Xi Jinping

Ronald Tiersky, RCW: What Will Kim Become?

The Singapore Summit pairing U.S. President Donald Trump with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is history, the hot takes have had time to cool, and it’s possible now to take a deeper look at what happened. The summit communique is vague, just a promise. Most important is what we’ve learned about Kim as a person, a leader, and a negotiator.

Kim Jong Un is a still a young and in many ways unformed man. In Singapore, he found himself out in the wider world, exposed to the international public’s eye for the first time as his nation’s leader. After years as his father’s successor-in-waiting and then as the country’s leader after 2011, Kim’s has been a life steeped in the make-believe North Korean totalitarianism created by his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, and then tended by his father, Kim Jong Il.

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WNU Editor: One of the better analysis that I have read on what have we learned about Kim Jong-un since the start of the Korean peace talks.

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