The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna FifieldMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book was 100% fascinating. Given the rare glimpses and the misinformation involved with North Korea, it is all sorts of interesting to have someone give a coherent (or as coherent as can be expected) account of Kim Jong-un's life.
Having attended school in Switzerland a few years prior to Kim Jong-un, I had heard various rumors about him and his siblings there, so it was good to read something that made a bit more sense.
Some of the information was truly surprising, such as the use of meth in North Korea. Some of those user rates seemed extremely high, so I wonder if they can be verified in any way.
The chapter on the talks with Trump was excellent: "After all, the leaders of the two countries had only seven years of political experience between them. Six of them were on Kim Jong Un's side." And then they struck a deal. The country that has reneged on ALL of its nuclear deals promised a vaguely worded agreement of working toward the denuclearization of the peninsula (which, weirdly, would include South Korea). In exchange the U.S. ordered the suspension of US military exercises with South Korea (which was a surprise to South Korea and Japan).
When Kim Yo-Jong (Kim Jong-un's sister) went to South Korea for the olympics, she stayed in the hotel suite, but she brought her own cot to sleep in, and didn't leave one fingerprint or strand of DNA. When Kim Jong-un attended the summit in Singapore, his agents occupied his suite for two days after he left in order to get rid of every single trace of DNA he may have left. As much as the west likes to make fun of them, these guys really seem to know what they're doing now.
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