Photos Show Kim Jong-un in School Production of 'Grease'

[Purveyor]

A U.K. tabloid newspaper has unearthed pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a teenager in a musical production at his Swiss boarding school.

The Sun on Tuesday published pictures of Kim in the school production of the iconic Broadway musical "Grease" in 1995.



The tubby North Korean leader appears in the pictures a skinny young boy in a leather jacket and well-oiled hair. Kim entered the International School of Berne at the age of 11 in 1994 and stayed there until 1997.

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Ex-classmate Tal Rapp from Israel told the paper, "Everyone now looks at him as a lunatic who hates the world, but the kid I remember was the quietest person I have ever met."

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http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/04/10/2013041001361.html

[HiPointDem]

1. he went to a swiss boarding school. that tells you something about north korea. things aren't

what they seem.

[defacto7]

2. "the quietest person I have ever met"

Passive aggressive? Now there's a leader to keep in your sights.

[HiPointDem]

3. 'quiet' = 'passive aggressive'? what?

[defacto7]

4. yep!

Quiet suppressed anger under the surface... bides it's time... makes irrational moves to counter suppression. Explosive, sometimes concealed. Then it's smile and shoot.

[HiPointDem]

6. oh bull. i hate armchair psychiatrists. quiet generally means quiet, not psychopathic.

[defacto7]

8. Oh hell, I'm not trying to be a psychiatrist....

I'm just stating a scenario that is not unusual for totalitarian rulers. Sure He's a quiet boy who was brought up gently by a loving father... how the hell do I know? You may very well be right... It's my opinion and that was a realistic way to paint a not so uncommon picture.

Now as for your hate.... Hate away. As for me, I won't waste my time hating someone with a differing point of view. I'll simply acknowledge an interesting difference of opinion that you have and that it is a good one. I won't hate you for that.

[HiPointDem]

9. we don't know anything about the korean leadership except what we read in slanted accounts

in the western press.

speculate all you like; it's just silly & irrelevant, imo.

[defacto7]

13. lovely!

[HiPointDem]

14. "went to a swiss boarding school". that should make you question the mainstream narrative,

but unsurprisingly.....

a swiss boarding school that educates the children of international elites.

He studied at the International School of Berne, in Switzerland, until 1998 under the pseudonym Pak Chol, learning to speak English, German and French, the Swiss weekly news magazine L'Hebdo reported earlier this year.

A classmate recalled him as timid and introverted but an avid skier and basketball player who was a big fan of the NBA star Michael Jordan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/02/kim-jong-il-names-son-successor

[Fozzledick]

5. I'd still like to see him dancing "Gangnam style".

[dsc]

7. yeah he reportedly sang

hopelessly devoted to nukes.

[Morning Dew]

11. and was serenaded with

You're The Un That I Want.

[Nolimit]

10. They sent the wrong celebrity!

Quick, get John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John on the first plane to Pyongyang!

[olddots]

12. It's hard to feel sorry for a deranged evil little dictator

.but I do and feel more sorry for everyone who lives in North Korea

[Union Scribe]

15. This gets stranger and stranger.

From day to day I don't know whether to find all this very funny or very dire. In any case, in the words of the classic protest sign, this shit is fucked up and bullshit.

[Javaman]

16. Ohhhhh, so that's why he named the NK's first nuke

"Greased Lightening".

[joeybee12]

17. I swear to God I thought this was The ONion!

Hee-hee

[LeftinOH]

18. Please let there be a video of this.. please!!