Kim Jong-un ‘was given first car aged seven and first gun at 11 and spat at his classmates’ in lavish childhood in North Korea
BLOODTHIRSTY dictator Kim Jong-un was given guns and cars when he was a small child while growing up in luxury in North Korea, a new biography reveals.
The arrogant despot earned the nickname "the little dictator" after he became difficult at school and would kick and spit at other pupils, it has been claimed.
Kim spent his early years alone at his family's luxury beach home in Wonsan and in their luxury compounds in Pyongyang, the
He was spoilt with his own flash motor at the age of seven and was even given a live Colt .45 pistol aged 11 which he wore on his hip, journalist Anna Fifield reveals.
In her biography of the North Korean leader, The Great Successor: The Secret Rise And Rule of Kim Jong Un, she writes that his father Kim Jong-il had the car modified to enable the seven-year-old to be able to drive it.
Ms Fifield writes that from a very young age, Jong-un was groomed for leadership, adding: “The boy grew up thinking he was special."
THE LITTLE DICTATOR
His eighth birthday party was not attended by other kids, but involved Kim being dressed in a black suit and having high level North Korean officials offering him bouquets of flowers.
The book claims in one incident, he shunned a Japanese chef just because he was not from North Korea.
Kenji Fujimoto met the future dictator, who was wearing a military uniform despite only being aged six, claiming Kim refused to shake his hand while glaring at him with "sharp eyes".
The chef believes the child was thinking "you abhorrent Japanese" judging by the look he gave him.
Ms Fifield believes it was Jong-un's arrogant personality which won his father's favour and set him apart from his other two brothers - half-sibling Kim Jong-nam, a rebellious playboy, and Kim Jong-chol an introvert.
Kim was sent to live in Switzerland when he was 12, with a "pudding bowl haircut", where he attended the Liebefeld Steinhölzli school - an English language institute near the city of Bern.
He was given a fake name, Pak Un, and lived with his maternal aunt Ko Yong Suk and her husband - who pretended to be his parents.
The dictator struggled academically, was competitive and had a bad temper, the book claims.
He would kick other students in the shins and spit at them when they spoke German - a language he struggled with.
The boy grew up thinking he was special
Journalist Anna Fifield
And the future mass murderer's ruthless side emerged while on the basketball court.
The teenage Kim would play in a Chicago Bulls jersey while trash talking at opponents, Ms Fifield writes.
He used a fake Brazilian passport to travel around Europe while enjoying holidays in Italy, the south of France and visiting Euro Disney in Paris.
In the book, Ms Fifield revealed that half-brother Jong-nam had worked as an informant for the CIA before he was assassinated.
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He died after being smeared in the face with VX nerve agent as he waiting for a flight at Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia.
Ms Fifield claims in her new book that Kim Jong-un viewed his half-brother as a potential threat, especially after he started meeting with CIA agents.
She wrote: "Kim Jong-nam became an informant for the CIA, an agency with a track record of trying to bring down dictators it didn't like."
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