The price of greed, silence, inaction, and fudging
By vanny
@vandana7 (98827)
India
October 18, 2017 12:24am CST
Kim Jong-un - the North Korean Supreme leader, has threatened to blow the entire US.
He studied in Switzerland. Was it possible to hide the nature from childhood?
Was it likely that he could have hidden the details of his cruel nature so well as a child?
Hasn't somebody been shielding him all the way - somebody who was not a North Korean?
My mind asks, what prompts people to look the other way without fearing such consequences. Agreed probability of many bad behaviors cannot be severe and things correct themselves in due course in most of the cases. But that simply does not mean that we ignore it or do not try to change the thinking in right time because it can lead to gravely bad behavior from others who become their victims.
Keep wondering what was the price of that silence, or need to maintain the reputation of the school or college.
It must be somebody in high position as diplomatic relationships could have been affected at that time.
How is it possible that there are no pictures of this student?
Only one picture of the student who was supposed to be shy, amicable, fond of basketball.
STRANGE. Don't you think?
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7 responses
@topffer (42156)
• France
18 Oct 17
I do not think I have 1 picture of my students years. We have no schools/college books in Europe. 1 photo/year of the classroom until highschool,but nothing in college.
Kim is less crazy than Donald. For what I read, North-Korea has paid people from US think tanks to understand Donald. Everything they do is thougt. I read this speech given at the UN, they just said that they had the right to develop nuclear weapons and were able to reach all the US territory if they were attacked and would not hesitate to use H bombs. I doubt that they would be able to do it, I just think that Kim is mobilizing his reserve army in case of a conventional attack and is galvanizing his population with declarations like this one.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
18 Oct 17
@vandana7 Kim sounds exactly in the line followed by his father. North-Korea has just adapted the speech for Trump who has threatened at the UN to nuke them and sent a declaration of war via Twitter.They said yesterday at the UN "Nuclear war may break at any moment". Obviously, due to the attitude of Donald Trump, yes.
I am sure that Kim Jong-Un listens a lot more to people around him than Donald Trump, and he will not be the one to push the button and start a nuclear war for a good reason : China has told that they would support North-Korea only if they were not the first to attack. I do not believe a lot in sanctions against North-Korea. I do not think it will stop the trade with China, and for the rest they have learned to live in autarcy due to many sanctions in the past.
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
18 Oct 17
It's not even sure he studied in Switzerland. At first a Japanese report published that he went to school near Bern. (The private English-language International School in Gümligen under the fake name of "Chol-pak"). But later it was reported he attended the Liebefeld Steinhölzli school in Köniz under the fake name of "Pak-un" or "Un-pak". As you see nobody is sure of anything. In Switzerland for privacy there are NO photos of the students.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
He has manifested his desire to annihilate America. I cannot be curious any longer about his make-up. He needs to carry his objective of world destruction. There is nothing good in that.
I am concerned if tomorrow will come. With the creature, I care not at all.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
18 Oct 17
I am more concerned about who helped to hide his identity. I doubt if he will do what he said he will do because that would mean him against the rest of the world. Nobody is going to trust him. Moreover, the rest of the world would be nervous with their economies hurt what with America sinking. It will not help the "creature" either ..in all probability somebody within the country will annihilate him if he steps that far since conditions there are really bad after the recent sanctions.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
18 Oct 17
I think some of his class mates said he had a sense of humor and he was funny.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
18 Oct 17
Wikipedia mentions
"According to some reports, Jong-un was described by classmates as a shy child who was awkward with girls and indifferent to political issues, but who distinguished himself in sports and had a fascination with the American National Basketball Association and Michael Jordan. "
"For many years, only one confirmed photograph of him was known to exist outside North Korea, apparently taken in the mid-1990s, when he was eleven"
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
18 Oct 17
I too feel so. But I truly hope he does not punish the citizens for the acts and thoughts of their leader. I hope he maintains rationality that if he does that, economies across the world will crumble like pack of cards. There would be no demand for what he has to offer, and attacking another nation is not going to help since they will offer resistance, and if he goes nuclear, the lands cannot be used for many centuries. It is pretty much like heads I lose, tails you win situation for him.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
18 Oct 17
@YrNemo .. Isn't it funny that we know he executed his uncle and had his brother also killed (I think step brother..not sure read somewhere). But we do not know much about his childhood, or college days. Which of the two would you be hiding? Sinister behavior or innocent past? I am curious ..how is it that somebody has shielded him so long...somebody not North Korean.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
Sometimes I'm thinking if he can really do it. Its not that I want war to happen but decades from his grandfather and him and still its all word war. This is Word War 1.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
18 Oct 17
@ilocosboy Hitler was avenging pride, as far as Germans were concerned, so he had their tacit approval of the population. Because Jews were believed to be the reason Germany lost the first world war, the punishments were considered right, though not many must have known about concentration camps.
@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
maybe that is what effective leadership is, because if only people could react to every evil plan then Hitler would have down before the WW1
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