Is that really Kim Jung-Un that we're seeing in these latest released photos? The Germans are not so easily fooled:
There are doubts about whether the the new man shown in official photos really is Kim Jong Un, meaning the son who is supposed to have spent time at a school in Bern, 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....
At least one Japanese expert believes that Kim Jong Il died a long time ago and that doppelgangers are being used. Others have been speculating for months about an imminent transfer of power. Kim Jong Un was tipped as the favorite to become North Korea's next leader. He is believed to have developed a passion for basketball while in Switzerland.
But was the pupil who lived under a pseudonym and who regularly received visits from North Korean diplomats really Kim's youngest son, whose mother was a dancer born in Japan? Or just a half-brother? Or perhaps even the son of some other member of the leadership?
Whatever, spare a thought for the eldest son - poor old Kim Jong Nam - who was so cruelly passed over.
[Photo: Reuters]
He may have inherited his father's fondness for pies, but at least he doesn't look like he'd send half the population off to prison camp for failing to worship him.
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