
Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized Biography
Kim Jong-un inherited North Korea's leadership as the youngest son of Kim Jong-il, stepping into a dynasty built on propaganda, purges, and a nuclear arsenal. This biography pieces together his life from the scarce reliable material available, tracing his Swiss schooling, his sudden elevation as heir, and the early moves he made to secure power, including the execution of his uncle Jang Song-thaek and the purges of senior military figures who might have challenged him. It covers his cultivation of the Korean People's Army, his summits with Donald Trump and Moon Jae-in, and his government's continued investment in missile and nuclear programs despite widespread food shortages. Archival footage, state broadcasts, and expert commentary are used to separate documented fact from the regime's own mythmaking and from outside speculation. The film treats Kim as a figure deliberately kept opaque by design, and spends its runtime testing what can actually be verified about the man running one of the world's most closed states.