Kim Jong Un’s decade in power: Starvation, repression and brutal rule – just like his father and grandfather
- Written by Sung-Yoon Lee, Professor in Korean Studies, Tufts University
Repression running in the genes?Jenni Lim/AFP via Getty ImagesBy 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...