Summary of Ankit Panda's Kim Jong Un and the Bomb

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#1 Jong Un, the youngest son of Kim Jong Il, was chosen to be the next supreme leader of North Korea. He was brash, confident, and headstrong, but his youth would be a problem, particularly given the existence of powerful greybeards around Kim Jong Il who might try to influence the young leader.

#2 Kim Jong Un, the son of Kim Jong Il, was proclaimed the new leader of North Korea in 2011. He quickly made global headlines for executing his uncle-by-marriage, Jang Song Thaek, one of his father’s most trusted and powerful deputies, in 2012.

#3 Kim Jong Un, after barely two years in power, declared a new strategic line in March 2013 called byungjin, or parallel development. This line borrowed an old idea from his grandfather, first articulated in a 1962 speech to the Workers’ Party Central Committee.

#4 Kim Jong Un’s byungjin was the successor to his father’s songun policy, which had put the Korean People’s Army at the forefront of affairs of state. Kim had been careful not to present these reforms to national defense as a break from his father or grandfather’s traditions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822529809

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#1

Jong Un, the youngest son of Kim Jong Il, was chosen to be the next supreme leader of North Korea. He was brash, confident, and headstrong, but his youth would be a problem, particularly given the existence of powerful greybeards around Kim Jong Il who might try to influence the young leader.

#2

Kim Jong Un, the son of Kim Jong Il, was proclaimed the new leader of North Korea in 2011. He quickly made global headlines for executing his uncle-by-marriage, Jang Song Thaek, one of his father’s most trusted and powerful deputies, in 2012.

#3

Kim Jong Un, after barely two years in power, declared a new strategic line in March 2013 called byungjin, or parallel development. This line borrowed an old idea from his grandfather, first articulated in a 1962 speech to the Workers’ Party Central Committee.

#4

Kim Jong Un’s byungjin was the successor to his father’s songun policy, which had put the Korean People’s Army at the forefront of affairs of state. Kim had been careful not to present these reforms to national defense as a break from his father or grandfather’s traditions.

#5

Kim Jong Un has personally left his mark on the nuclear program. He has shown a particular care for the younger generation of missile engineers, and has feted the hundreds of personnel who have been involved in the development of the country’s ICBM and thermonuclear technology.

#6

After the byungjin testing campaign, Kim was given an audience with a U. S. president less than one year after testing three missiles capable of ranging U. territory. But why is this nuclear force so crucial to him. What purposes does it serve.

#7

The American public’s perception of North Korea was largely one of bemusement, even after North Korea tested its first hydrogen bomb in January 2016. This was an old tendency in the American perception of North Korea, as the country was often the subject of satire and comedy.

#8

North Korean leaders are also often perceived as being irrational, and this is because the country is so misunderstood and feared by Americans.

#9

The overbearing authoritarianism that exists in North Korea today stems from the country’s insecurity, which stems from their inability to determine the intentions of other countries. They have adapted their limited means to best realize a well-defined and remarkably constant set of end objectives.

#10

The objective of reunification is fundamentally coercive, threatening, and an existential threat to South Korea. However, under Kim Jong Un, the rigidity of this objective and its place in the hierarchy of North Korean