OFFICIAL VERSION - BORN 2/16/1942 - top of sacred Mount Paektu, during a storm at his birth, where flashes of lightning and thunder, the iceberg in the pond on Mount Paektu emitted a mysterious sound as it broke and bright double rainbows rose up

IN REALITY - BORN 2/16/1941 - Born at a war camp in the eastern Siberian city of Khabarovsk,just north of Vladivostok and birthdate was changed to 1942 to make a more convenient 30 year age difference between himself and his father (frequent cultural tradition).

Younger brother drowned as a child in 1944 - sister’s whereabouts unknown - Mother died when he was 7

Sent to Manchuria when Korean War broke out in 19S0 and returned three years later when it ended

Joined the Workers Party in 1973

Secretariat of the Central Committee in 1973

1980 Member of Central Committee - Member of Military Committee & designated successor to his father Kim Il Sung

12/1991 became Commander-in-Chief of armed forces

Death of Father - 7/08/1 994 - INHERITED SUPREME POWER

Named Supreme People’s Assembly & Reconfirmed as Chairman of the National Defense Commission (declared the “highest office of state”)

Movie Fanatic - has over 20,000 films - said to have the world’s largest collection of porno films - abducted famous South Korean movie director and his ex-wife - kept them for 8 years making them produce propaganda films.  They escaped in 1986 - wrote a book about him.

Micro-manages every detail of government business - Impatient -arrogant - self-centered - does not take kindly to criticism or opinions different from his own - suspicious - extremely emotional -double personality - playboy - perms hair - wears lifts in his shoes -loves good food and drink (largest consumer of Henessey’s reportedly)

Married - two - three - four or more ????? - son born in 1971 - Kim Jong Nam and another son Kim Pyong II - don’t know who is eldest