Kim Jong-il’s Son: Cheese scholar, peacemaker (on the playground)

By Ken Silverstein

From the BBC:

So little is known about Kim Jong-un—the youngest son and reportedly the named successor of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il—that even his date of birth is uncertain: no-one is really sure whether he was born in 1983 or 1984.

But it is known that the third Kim, like his two elder brothers, was sent to school in Switzerland. The BBC’s Imogen Foulkes reports on the young Kim’s school days, and the unusually close relationship between Switzerland and North Korea. Kim Jong-un attended Berne’s international school, where, it is rumoured, he joined school skiing outings, and was something of a peacemaker in playground disputes…

North Korean agricultural specialists regularly spend time here studying the Swiss art of making cheese and yoghurt, which Kim Jong-il is said to love.