The wild temper and rage that the world has come to expect from North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong Un was apparent from his early youth, according to a North Korean expert.
Kim was known for lashing out at his teenage sweetheart in high school, Nam Sung Wook, a former director of a think tank on inter-Korean studies, said.
When Kim’s 15-year-old girlfriend asked him to give up cigarettes, he exploded, showering her with obscenities. That outbreak foreshadowed the rhetoric that many world leaders have come to expect from the reclusive communist regime’s unstable leader.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the unveiling ceremony of two statues of former leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang. North Korea. Pedro Ugarte/AFP/GettyImages
