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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Wed Apr 10, 2013, 12:33 AM Apr 2013

Photos Show Kim Jong-un in School Production of 'Grease' [View all]

A U.K. tabloid newspaper has unearthed pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a teenager in a musical production at his Swiss boarding school.

The Sun on Tuesday published pictures of Kim in the school production of the iconic Broadway musical "Grease" in 1995.

The tubby North Korean leader appears in the pictures a skinny young boy in a leather jacket and well-oiled hair. Kim entered the International School of Berne at the age of 11 in 1994 and stayed there until 1997.

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Ex-classmate Tal Rapp from Israel told the paper, "Everyone now looks at him as a lunatic who hates the world, but the kid I remember was the quietest person I have ever met."

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http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/04/10/2013041001361.html

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Photos Show Kim Jong-un in School Production of 'Grease' [View all] Purveyor Apr 2013 OP

he went to a swiss boarding school. that tells you something about north korea. things aren't HiPointDem Apr 2013 #1

"the quietest person I have ever met" defacto7 Apr 2013 #2

'quiet' = 'passive aggressive'? what? HiPointDem Apr 2013 #3

yep! defacto7 Apr 2013 #4

oh bull. i hate armchair psychiatrists. quiet generally means quiet, not psychopathic. HiPointDem Apr 2013 #6

Oh hell, I'm not trying to be a psychiatrist.... defacto7 Apr 2013 #8

we don't know anything about the korean leadership except what we read in slanted accounts HiPointDem Apr 2013 #9

lovely! defacto7 Apr 2013 #13

"went to a swiss boarding school". that should make you question the mainstream narrative, HiPointDem Apr 2013 #14

I'd still like to see him dancing "Gangnam style". Fozzledick Apr 2013 #5

yeah he reportedly sang dsc Apr 2013 #7

and was serenaded with Morning Dew Apr 2013 #11

They sent the wrong celebrity! Nolimit Apr 2013 #10

It's hard to feel sorry for a deranged evil little dictator olddots Apr 2013 #12

This gets stranger and stranger. Union Scribe Apr 2013 #15

Ohhhhh, so that's why he named the NK's first nuke Javaman Apr 2013 #16

I swear to God I thought this was The ONion! joeybee12 Apr 2013 #17

Please let there be a video of this.. please!! LeftinOH Apr 2013 #18