Kim Jong Un's decade in power: Starvation, repression and brutal rule – just like his father and grandfather
By Sung-Yoon Lee for The Conversation, By the grim metric of fatalities in the first 10 years of a dictator’s rule, Kim Jong Un has yet to match the records set by his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, or father, Kim Jong Il – the two tyrants who reigned by terror in North Korea before him. For now, the number of people Kim Jong Un has personally ordered killed – such as his uncle in