A Worrying Look At North Korea`s Leader Kim Jong-Un

Threat: Kim Jong-Un defied warnings from across the world to launch an Unha-3 ballistic rocket on Wednesday. He is known as The Shining Son and it is said his face has been surgically altered to resemble his grandfather, Kim Il-Sung, the first ruler of North Korea

Gulags, Mass Starvation, Torture And The Boy Tyrant Who's One Step Closer To Nuking The West -- Daily Mail

* North Korea's launch of a ballistic rocket showed plan to attack America
* But state media said launch as successful positioning of weather satellite
* 'Shining Son' leader Kim Jong-Un has megalomaniac designs on West
* He lives in gilded palaces while poor are kept in camps the size of LA
* Parents and children incarcerated together and shot if they try to escape

The country has enough fissile material for a dozen nuclear bombs. It sells missile technology to rogue regimes such as Iran and Syria. And the three generations of the Kim dynasty who have run it since 1945 have all been ruthless, brutal — and terrifyingly erratic.

At 9.49 local time on Wednesday, North Korea’s isolated regime defied warnings from across the world to launch an Unha-3 ballistic rocket from a remote village near the Yalu River border with China.

The launch site is 45 miles from North Korea’s main nuclear complex at Yongbyon, where scientists are working towards the production of long-range missiles which can carry nuclear warheads.

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My Comment: Reuters is right .... after this successful missile test, the next test will be this one.

North Korea's Leader Kim Jong Un Is Still A Mystery

North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un and military officer Jang Song-taek paying their respects。 (Courtesy Reuters)

North Korea's Leader Still A Mystery -- Chris Lawrence, CNN

The United States and South Korea still have no clear insight on the new leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, nearly a year after he replaced his father.

"We still don't know whether or not he will follow in the footsteps of his father, or whether he represents a different kind of leadership for the future," U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta admitted Wednesday.

Panetta made the comment at a news conference on Wednesday after security talks with his South Korean counterpart. The meetings included discussion of North Korea's young leader, who succeeded his father, Kim Jong Il, after his death in 2011.

South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said the actual regime "seems to be quite stable," and there is hope Kim Jong Un would "try to introduce new economic reform measures to make a better life for the people" of North Korea.

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Update: North Korea new leader still a mystery after nearly a year: Pentagon -- Reuters

My Comment: Officials in the U.S. and South Korea may wonder who this new North Korean leader is .... and what he may do .... but his family has no illusions on who and what he is.