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Date : March 2, 2018
THE EDUCATION OF KIM JONG–UN
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THE EDUCATION OF KIM JONG–UN

BY JUNG H. PAK, Brookings Institution

February 2018

WHEN NORTH KOREAN STATE MEDIA reported in December 2011 that leader Kim Jong-il had died at the age of 70 of a heart attack from overwork, I was a relatively new analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. Everyone knew that Kim had heart issues—he had suffered a stroke in 2008—and that the day would probably come when his familys history of heart disease and his smoking, drinking, and partying would catch up with him. His father and founder of the country Kim Il-sung had also died of a heart attack in 1994. Still, the death was jarring. ......









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