And the "sacking" was a step toward that end. Some reports are saying he has established an economic cabinet and is looking to open up commerce outside NK. There was a lot of devastating corruption in the military, which would divert up to 30% of the food aid toward the elites and military leaders.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/120720/kim-jong-un-reform-north-korea-economy
I am really hopeful the conditions in North Korea may improving some.
The "disney" show, the more fashionable clothing (including miniskirts), the openness regarding his companion and the invitation to his father's old sushi chef all appear to be very good signs. Korth Korea is certainly one place that could use a little hope.
Fujimoto, the old sushi chef and companion of the young boy, once had this to share about a young Kim Jong Un...
Fujimoto has high hopes for the young leader’s tenure in one of the world’s most isolated and impoverished nations. In Successor of the North: Kim Jong Un, he describes how the teenager would, unbeknownst to his father, went to Fujimoto’s room to bum an Yves Saint Laurent cigarette from the chef. (The book includes a small photograph of one of the cigarette packs.) During one of these clandestine smoke breaks, the young Kim reportedly wondered aloud how, while he was enjoying Rollerblading and horseback riding on the family compound, the North Korean people were faring. “He can lead North Korea in a good direction,” Fujimoto says. “What his grandfather Kim Il Sung couldn’t do, and what his father Kim Jong Il couldn’t do, will be done by Kim Jong Un … I believe he will choose a path of change and reform.” When asked about reports that he would closely follow the policy of his father, Fujimoto says, flatly, “You are wrong.”
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