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- With the historic summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un just hours away, NBC’s Keir Simmons gets an exclusive profile of North Korea’s reclusive leader from a former teacher who says Kim was his student for an entire year. “He was a good student but he wasn’t extraordinary,” Michel Riesen says.
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Who Is Kim Jong Un? His Former Teacher Speaks Out | TODAY
BTW that one shy kid sitting next to you in class might be the next dictator so make a LOT of friends
Chris Parcel lmaoooo u ain’t lyin
Why did you just about me
What you sat just about i?
Bruhh
I’m quite and dumb
Imagine him coming back for his Highschool Reunion
Lmao and instantly said WADDUPP OLD CLASSMATES WANNA SHOOT SOME HOOPS I GOT THE NEW AIRMAX FOR YA
I might even do it
Lol
@@kimjongun7226 I'm sure they miss you dear leader, may have to drop a few pounds before ballin again tho
@@kimjongun7226 do you miss trump?? can you wait to meet biden in person??
Teacher: He was good but he was not extraordinary
*Teacher is now nowhere to be found*
Miz Rahman underrated
@@Adi-zx8ce love bro❤
LMAO
I saw it coming before I started to watch the video
Teacher committed suicide, shooting himself 5 times in the back
Ok, never found a more accurate example of *That one quiet kid in class*
That’s usually how life goes. It’s always the quiet kids the ones that nobody was expecting would win, that indeed end up winning
@@onzah3515 winning? 😃
@@bestiebombshell6368 he meant, surprising everyone with their capabilities despite of how other people perceive them
@Jerome Valeska your a kid that doesn't understand so do us a favor and delete your comment
@Jerome Valeska then that is an indication that you should just stop watching about video that has to do anything with Kim jung un
Imagine if he was just a regular korean kid and everyone's just been teasing the wrong guy.
lol i am ur 5th liker its gonna blow up
robolox7860 ok
@@kimjoungun3015 Nice!
robolox7860 your right lol
NANI 354 likes
Now he's trying to slam dunk missiles.
420 likes
Lmaoo
💀💀💀
You got it man
Dante Duruisseau see people like you ruins this world
He became a dictator because he didn’t get tall enough to join the NBA.
Jonah reliable
They should've just let him play
@Lord k Imagine how different history would be if these people had pursued their dreams instead of power.
@@gamingrex2930 idk man. another person could've very easily filled the role of Hitler. Look at the situation preceding his rise to power, and you could say that someone else would've rose to the occasion.
The leader of north korea is an inheritance. if it wasn't kim jong un, kim jong il would've chosen another son to be his successor.
That's funny!
"He spent his high school years pretending to be someone else"- Describes half the planet.
exactly
half the planet? Describes all the high school students wherever they are.
@@sjegannath6295 He's talking about w*men
"he was a good student"
that's what every teacher said
Well because he knew if he said he wasn't a good student, somebody definitely would look after him.
HighOctane he probably was that’s why he got picked as successor over his older brother
@@drhanifp o.m.g TRUE😯
Lol like he has other options...
Doesnt mean I became a dictator I'm a bad person, Say what you want haters.
Imagine if a korean kid you bullied at school becomes North Korea dictator 20yrs later
@@PhuongDPRKDaily
@@PhuongDPRKDaily then why there is huge pollution in your capital? Foggy in the morning, ghost town in the night lol.
@@PhuongDPRKDaily thats why I ask, many tourist who record their visit in pyong yang said theyre polluted lol you can search them in the bar if you want.
@laurenmlahrman u bully ppl bcuz theyre annoying.
Airosmith Redila
Just because people annoying doesn’t mean you bully them
This explains why he's friends with Dennis Rodman.
PC_LBC he supported the Bulls when he was young
yes, that's actually it! Dennis Rodman himself said so. When he was asked "what do you guys talk about?" he answered "basketball, mostly. [Kim Jong-Un] is very passionate about it"
Oh wow makes sense!
There not friend
Rodman said he invited Jordan and Pippen (teammates from the bulls) first, but they declined.
Imagine if he lost weight and started playing ball again.
dont think he could do that in the gulag
GPL He has 9 lives and several clones. One of those villains that never actually die.
He's gone missing not because he's dead, but because he's working on some wicked gains in secret.
Zzzzeyd 🤞🏻
@@sudonim7552 curry about to have some competition
Imagine being friends with a future dictator unknowingly. Like “man I wonder whatever happened to my boy Kim from science class?”
JONES what?
His name is Jong un and Kim is the last name
Lmaooo
He was known as Un.
Kim is his last name. More realistically he would think "I wonder what happened to my boy Un from our basketball days"
Breaking News
The teacher was later found in their home dead.
Is that a joke
No he really was
@@wastedoxys Can you link me a article?
Fire Hazzard I was making a joke statement
@@wastedoxys oh lol
"Don't come to north korea in 15 years, you're cool." -Un Pak
Its like, "Don't come to school tomorrow. Your nice."
-The quiet kid
Imagine the nervousness of kim jung un's barber while trimming his hair....
@S C I think dictators purposely try to make themselves look distinct. Look at Hitler's stache.
boxing fanatics Apparently Kim cuts his own hair cause he is afraid of barbers.
Looks like you have to cut it with a blindfold on while drunk
he does his own haircuts apparently, fearing anyone near him with sharp objects like scissors
Jack Warner actually that was a very popular Mustache. It was popular since it shown the ability to maintain it every day. While showing the Manley
Ness of facial hair. It was the perfect facial hair for a dictator showing power yet not brutish power but instead very intelligently used power.
Looks like he stopped playing basketball a while ago.
Nah. He still does.
Now he plays with his balls.
Now, he IS the basketball
He plays basketball with missiles now. Don't call him for traveling.
Lmao
y'all should've just given him a basketball career.
One of his other siblings would just be the leader in that case.
@@jacobr5627 Atleast NK's leader wouldnt be some brainless guy
Zhaira Jei Santos / zhairuh hh
Now he'll be slam dunk nukes
y'all should've just given Hitler a artist career
Kim consumed more calories in one day then his entire country did in one month.
Question Everything ok
THICC JONG UN
@Abigail Chaiyasate ah the classic father like son political move
No over 70 years
Correction: in one sitting
That explains his great friendship with Dennis Rodman. He love the NBA.
that's exaclty what i thought , he always seemed like a nice guy when denis was around
Bring more NBA games to North Korea, Kim loves it.
The most suprising fact that he was thin!!
It's hard work starving out an entire country.
😂😂😂
i tot he had a twins .. wakakakkakka
Long before he had the gout lol
Wingzerodd
Same. I was so shocked by the thumbnail lmao
I actually live 350m away from the school he attended. I can confirm that this is actually common knowledge here altough it‘s really hard to imagine that the leader of north korea actually went to a normal school.
Are you Vietnamese? I find Vietnamese people in Switzerland have mastered many languages, all with great accents!
do you know the teacher?😂 i live near köniz too and it would be fun to talk with him about kim
Where you from
Kim Jong-un Oh my gosh 😅😂
@@latinmoses8417 I am the real Kim Jong-Un
he's like the quiet kid in class that always sits alone,until u realized his dad was a mafia boss and he became the leader of it
Like that is common?
Lien Bijs in anime
@@lienbijs1205 1890 🤡
he wasn't that quiet in there
Not gonna lie he does have a very interesting backstory
I thought that, the fact that he is secretly westernised is quite weird to me for some reason.
@@Jack-wg9jo Right? He's not just some wacko dictator, but a guy who was confirmed to own a playstation, watch the Chicago Bulls, and is rumored to like Katy Perry and play World of Tanks. I mean, this guy isn't THAT different from the rest of us in a lot of ways.
Imagine if he wasn't a dictator. He may have become a basketball player. 😂
Hes gonna need a bigger rim to get tossed through.
Princess Fluffybottom Same with Hitler becoming a painter.
sad... lol
Starlex wtf no way
Too short and not athletic enough. He will get destroyed by good middle schoolers
“Rich Asian kid starter pack”
Lel
Lmao
Lol
@Sugar Honey Iced Tea ngl that was a pretty bad joke
Bluest Blue no dude it was god awful
1907 Art School: Failure
1998 Basketball: Failure. 😅😅😅
😂😂😂😂😂
💀💀💀💀
🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂
Something doesn't seem right
but kim jong un himself has no interest, his father wanted him to be his replacement when he dies because their family is literally owning north korea and needs someone a member of their family to run the country and that was him kim jong un who was not interested in politics according to his former classmates and but he did loved basketball
My friend's ex-boyfriend went to boarding school in Switzerland with him. He said he had friends and loved basketball. Nobody would have ever thought he would become the infamous Supreme Leader.
right
Harold Potsdamer not sure, either English or German. I think he knows fluent English but we never see him speak it. Koreans are very prideful and they usually won’t speak English to me unless they’re 100% sure it’s perfect grammar/pronunciation ect. I lived there for five years and that was my experience anyways.
He became the Ultra Big Supreme Leader from McDonalds limited with a large coke for only $5 bucks
@@Yoruski childish
Can we be friends?
"I wasn't teasing the leader of North Korea, I was teasing Un Pak." Why did this give me the feels?
Realizing he teased a different Un, reall hits me with the feels
Un Pak, Deux Pak
@@hiimkballplotagon6651 Honhonhonhon
Jim Bones cus u watch too much anime
Faux Pak
Why did you guys give this dude subtitles? He’s perfectly understandable...
Are you thinking about that clip of the Iraqi rebels?
JayJay5244 cuz some people.
He is not speaking American ;)
Yugan Dali LOL No I was being dead serious but now that you mention it 😂
Hugh Jones Well the reporter isn’t really American either though xD
From being a basketball lover to being a basketball himself. Great journey.
Underrated comment lmao
Lol
Your not funny
@@charlesbonds9967 its funny
@@hadilol it's not funny
I miss you my teacher. Will soon come to meet you.
That profile pic xD
U look fake lmao
you piggy coward!
@@luvinadancel7561 no messages from luvina dance since then 😪💔
Is that a threat Kim?
That teacher wished he could go back in time and support Kim Jong Un on his basketball career.
Ray Archangel94 Same bro
Same bro
Same sis
He wished but...time waits for none....
@@itolukibami725 same bro
They make Kim jong un sound like an unknown planet.
"fun nyan nyan"
is
🤣🤣🤣
@ your comment reminds me of that Junji Ito story.. Planet Remina. Man i love Junji Ito's stories they be making me think.
@
Coronavirus cases: 0... no, 1, nvm 0 now, wtf 1 again? ok we fixed it guys now it gonna stay 0 for sure
Who else is here because of the recent news saying he may or may not be dead?? No just me?😂
NCTzen _xuxi lol just heard this afternoon
NCTzen _xuxi u aint the only one, ive been reading articles and watching vids abt him lmfaoo
me
Meee
So is he dead
"he wasn't that extraordinary"
famous last words
Went from shooting hoops to shooting missiles.
Mr. Dency, That's one way of looking at it!
lol
😂
His basketball probably has more range than the missiles lol
still missssssles
Why does his younger pic look like rich Brian
Aye fr 3:22 he actually does
Sneh Patel o- racist
Sneh Patel so do white people and Indians.
steviecudder45 i said what i said.
steviecudder45 you have a cat?
I pray that the teacher is safe after that interview 😁
North Korea has locked the teacher with a nuke 😂
Idk If it is still true but Kim seem like he would be ok with this giy
it is a little comforting that at some point he was just a “normal” teen living in Switzerland. I’m sure being the son of a powerful dictator changed his innocence tho :(
Can we be friends?
"but he wasn't extraordinary"
Oof
That man had to have balls bigger than the biggest ball to say that in public
To be honest to be extraordinary means being a Genius. So i dont blame him for not being extraordinary,most of people in the world are not extraordinary either. it is like laughing for someone for not being a genius.
Christopher carraman yeah just like einstein and hines doofenshmirtz
Christopher carraman honestly no reason for him to say that at all
AlphaCrystal21 now here’s the question, who has the biggest balls?
He looked like rich chigga as a kid lol
Fr
FeministMemes BAHAHA
Lmao
ashton rich chigga*
bruh he look like any other asian
Imagine if the teacher treated him bad. Now Kim takes revenge 💀
Teacher : he wasn't extraordinary.
*Kim jong un wants to know your location
But he was the only student of his to become a Dictator.
I hope he is still alive 😂
Kim is a big fan of basketball.
Give him the Golden State warriors and the Cleveland cavaliers as a gift.
Manuel Rocha I think he is a big fan of the Jordan led championship Bulls teams of the 90s.
Rises East
Well he knows a good championship team when he sees one. Maybe the best ever.
maybe thats reason why he is a friend of dennis rodman
Rises East thats because of his time in switzerland, the bulls were huuge in switzerland in the 90s i remember that, they were bigger than any soccer team over here. im sure if he grew up in north korea his whole life he would have never cared about basketball
Kim’s voice is deeper than I thought it would be
It's not natural. He forces it to sound deeper. It's apart of the image.
cryforthemoon not really.
cryforthemoon as everyone knows “force” does not give deeper voice, only for darth Vader
He's definitely a smoker. You can tell.
He's heavy smoker and he imitate his grand father's voice tone and accent. People say he speaks exactly like his grand father
He looked like an upcoming korean rapper in his younger days
Namjoon
I mean idk about rapper but thug? You know them black T and a chain I was rocking that in my days too coming to school with a black t and you could see my chain but it was tuck in since it's religious.
He looked like those asian soundcloud rappers 💀💀
Imagine if that was just a regular Korean who went to school at that school and he turns on the news to see his old high school pictures being side-by-side compared with Kim Jong Un. I could only imagine the level of confusion
I wonder if he had a girlfriend while being in Europe, imagine the girl/s finding out now they slept with Kim Jung Un 😂
Fr
they banged a world terrorist
fr he was rich might prolly got some coochies
lol
@@tednguyen8310 lol
So he wore chains and basketball sneakers ,was a baller and called himself "UnPAC" after 2PAC. My mans a G ever since .
Edit : Wow! Thanks guys I've never got so many likes, y'all made my mans UnPac Shakur very happy!
@Sumire I understood that reference...
Bet he still listening to biggie and pac on spotify
Glennville Sanido lol unpac🤣🤣
My dad is peruvian and he studied engineering at college with a former president of Peru, Martín Vizcarra, and he told me that the man was the opposite of what you think of a politician, he was quiet, talked to just a few people. it`s crazy to think now that i am in college that ´someone in this room can became that famous`.
Calla castiburro 😂
Most politicians are antisocial nerds
The moment you realise Kim Jong Un is the fattest man in North Korea. There comes a saying "In the kingdom of the starving, the fattest man is king."
He's a normal dude who had an unfortunate upbringing. I don't think it's his fault he was raised to be a dictator.. I think there is much hope for him and the younger North Korean generation to just move forward.
He killed his uncle and own brother. He is still evil
Soongah Bok if you are going to rule north Korea you have to do it it's palace politics
And hundreds of thousands are in "re-education" camps being tortured daily for questioning their surroundings.
Soongah Bok Rodman said its lie
Soongah Bok probably not him. He has a lot of old people around him he has to please. He would be killed if he didn’t keep up charades as they don’t give two damns about him. They only care about upholding his grandfather and father’s songun and juche styles.
Why Do I get The Feeling This Teacher Guy Is Gonna Be Dead After A Few Day.
COC MASTER he is actually dead the police found him in his apartment they said it’s from a heart attack
Evil rio
Evil link?
Evil seriously?
@@evil7260 heart attack
Imagine the fear you would feel if you had bullied him
Nobody:
Every villain childhood stories:
F
He used to be skinny legend
Now he is quarantine 2
His roblox username is fatboy123 please friend him or you will be sent to gulag
why not ask Kim if it was him? :D
Go ahead and ask him :)
Lawrence231 😂😂😂😂😂
There is pretty much no doubt that it's him.
Lian David are you crazy?
Because you probably cant get within 2 feet of kim
No wonder why he loves Dennis Rodman!!
Joshua Norris stop hating.You should be Thanking Dennis
Tracy King I'm not I love both Dennis & President Trump!
Joshua Norris this country has to work together l don't like everything Trump does,but this is a good thing.
I agree!
hating.you , never heard of that website before lol xD
imagine the person that might have bullied or had a fight with him
I wanna see the interview of Pol Science teacher who taught him Democracy
Thats Gone Be A Fun School Reunion🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
Winners don't go to school renunions. only losers & has beens go.
Me and Kim play nba 2k19 every weekend
Yes i play with you
@@kimjoungun3015 you mispelled your name
The Guy Who Cares wkwkwk
King Dino Dragonite he's a fake thats why
Kim Joung Un no I dont, you poser
Netflix should pick this up and make a series. Interesting to see this kid from what the teacher described to being the leader or NK
“To me, I wasn’t teasing the future leader, I was teasing Un Pak”
What a weirdly wholesome line
0:25 "he believes..." Imagine that student wasn't Kim Jung un this whole time, just a random Asian
Say what you want about him being evil, but you cant deny...
The fade is looking deadly
Yeah.... the fade bro
USA: Kim Jong Un Denuclearize
Kim: No
USA: We will give you an NBA team
Kim: Okay, deal.
imagine having a crush on a skinny legend in your class only to find out you didn't regret not confessing to him
He was a cutie when he was younger power corrupted him
Dude he was corrupt the whole time
I m still cutter
@@kimjoungun3015 executioner*
Game Time -.- labour camp for you now
@@kimjoungun3015 why
In Kim's defense (btw I think he is a mass murder and a terrible person) he was only hiding his identity for security reasons and it probably wasn't his choice to do so.
yes
whos here when he is presumed “dead”
I
This was recommended in my feed lol
@@dl.4192 that's great haha
I
So it's possible that his kids can already be somewhere in eu, unnoticed?
OH MY GOODNESS, NOW I'M NEVER GONNA TALK BACK TO THE RUDE ASIAN KIDS IN MY CLASS EVER AGAIN
I hope that teacher isn't found dead from "suicide" having shot himself in the back of his head three times
When puberty hits you so hard that you want to become a dictator
When people become famous, everyone tries to associate with them ' Oh, he was that shy kid, oh he used to sit next to me during maths class and bla bla bla. But when you're nobody, not a one person will remember that.
Society and family create fascists. As a mentality, not politics.
@@Pyrzex what is a fascist or fascism?
@OT S nah they have similar features, he just looks younger (obviously)
very true
Kinda reminds me of Anakin Skywalker lmao
It was RiceGum
Ricegum is kim Jun un twin
One we take him down ricegum will be the new leader
*idubbbz wants to know your location*
Count Roy how’s it racist
Wtf is a rice gum? Gum made out of rice?
the guy who is narrating sounds like stewy Griffen
Joseph Stalin but older 😂
Gordon ramsay but sounds younger*
HAHA
I can't unhear it now
Wtf are you doin here huh you ded mann
Dang so the movie The Interview was hella on point with the basketball LOL
Some ask "where is Kim Jong Un?", others ask "who is Kim Jong Un?" Meanwhile, the best yet is "how is Kim Jong Un?"
Kim Jong Un looks better in his younger years
Suga Is sweet sugagsggagsgs 💜💜
@@celestias7889 hahhahaahha
Don't we all?
His younger self low key reminds me of Rich Chigga lol
@OT S i think too his eyes eybrows dont match its just an average korean kid
"Hello, my name is Un Pak, and I'm just your average, everyday middle school student."
"but my family is actually...."
I'd watch a sitcom like that lol
Much love from KENYA 🇰🇪
He went from shooting 3's to shooting missiles. GG
If you Americans need subtitles for this guy my god....
ziggyjuarez is this english? If so you need help
Allah Akbar
@@rickytang9420 what? What does that have to do with the comment and video?
LOL
I love generalizing too.
"He wasn't extraordinary" lol love the honesty.
It's like dumbledore teached voldemort and he became the most evil wizard of the century
im so confused, how can they not know if someone's dad is a dictator of a country? i am unaware of how north korea is, but do they note even show their children?
He used a fake name
A. Bo but the teacher said his name was un ?
@@karlinaalvarez7411 Un Pak. He went by the "Un" part, but the "Pak" part, was probably the fake name
@@karlinaalvarez7411 kim is his last name. Un is his first.
the leaders usually do keep their children a secret. NK public didn’t even know Kim Jong-un existed until his father appointed him as his successor when he was already in his 20s. Jong-un has siblings too but apparently, according to defectors, most of them are secret and they didn’t even know about his brother while they lived there.
Back then he looked like that one high schooler who drove a 94 Honda civic
Explains the his love for dennis rodman
He looks like Jimmy the tech in Tej's Garage from 2Fast2furious😂
Kim Jong Un Potential Job Plans:
1.Join the NBA
2.Become a ruthless dictator
Apparently his weight gain and haircut is all calculated to make him look like his grandpa
He was cute though. He aged like cheese.
Maylyn Bayani HE AGED LIKE CHEESE AKSKSKDKDKD
@@user-if9qx9ho5eblue cheese to be exact. Milk seemed a bit mild
Maylyn Bayani 😂😭😭
Well you know the saying you are what you eat.
using an alias has nothing to do with his honesty... its a national security necessity for the north koreans...
Hey Christ is James from school
Hey Christ is James from school
Wrong Chris sorry
Imagine his actual student sitting home like "😑"
that is when the actual student finds out if the teacher really liked him
Imagine Kim Jong Un laying baskets in the NBA court
2:50 Bars 👌
Hey, you look already like a pro...
But there is still a way to go
To play like a pro..
Is that Ricegum???
Yes it is
its ricegum cousin
yes, all Asian people are rice gum
Looks more like him than Kim jung un
Cassim505 As a Filipino I am highly offended
i will never see Kim the same way after seeing The Interview
"Smiling, ruthless, mysterious"
Yup, he's that kid at the back of the class 🤣