“Kim Jong-un is a pale reflection of his father and grandfather. He has not had the decades of grooming and securing of a power base that Jong-il enjoyed before assuming control from his father,” said Bruce Klingner, an Asia policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. “[He] may feel it necessary in the future to precipitate a crisis to prove his mettle to other senior leaders or deflect attention from the regime’s failings.”
Translation: Kim Jung-Un is no Steve Jobs, the new Kim is a young man turned demi-god filling the shoes created by a propaganda machine. Like Jobs on his return to Apple, Un must face up to the dangers of waking the world up to the awful realities of a closed-off nation ruled by a long line of maniacs. One wonders if young Kim is not frantically reading Jobs’ biography?