A recent Japanese TV report (NTV) on North Korea touched on the issue of Kim Jong-Il’s sons, with specific focus on Kim Jong-chul, the apparent successor to Kim Jong-Il. Here are some highlights from the video clips (1 & 2):

Kim Jong-chul is pretty young. The above photo shows him with his daddy in 1981. He was sent to an international school in Switzerland under a fake name, where he had a western education. The TV program interviews his former classmates:

This American guy says that he can’t believe Jong-Chul is evil. He recalls that Kim Jong-Chul was a “nice guy”.

Another classmate talks about how Kim was a member of the school’s basketball team. Kim really liked the NBA and may have even dreamed about playing professional baseketball in America. The classmate recalls that he as a very good team player.

The report moves on to talk about Kim Jong-Un, Kim Jong-il’s third son, who remains a mystery to the west. There are no known photographs of him, so he is represented by a blue person-thing in the TV report.

The reporters manage to find a man who had access to the inner circle of North Korean leadership. He agrees to describe Kim Jong-Un to some police sketch artists.

Here he is! Kim Jong-Un! Didn’t I see him on the street yesterday?

There is a bunch of other information in the reports, some of which I don’t understand, and some of which I didn’t think was interesting enough to mention (such as a description of the current missile crisis). If you can understand Japanese, you should watch the clips and see the full report.  You might also want to read about Kim Jong-Chul’s latest trip to see Eric Clapton concerts in Germany.