Like father, like grandfather: How Kim Jong Un’s grip has extended brutal repression to a new generational
By Sung-Yoon Lee, Professor in Korean Studies, Tufts University By the grim metric of fatalities in the first 10 years of a dictator’s rule, Kim Jong Un has yet to match the records set by his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, or father, Kim Jong Il – the two tyrants who reigned by terror in North Korea before him. For now, the number of people Kim Jong Un has personally ordered killed – such as his uncle in 2013 and half-brother in 2017 – is likely to number in the hundreds. But his decade in power, which began after his...
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