Kim Jong-un was a trash-talking basketball player and Super Mario fan who wore a pistol on his waist aged 11 as he soaked up Bond movies in his private cinema, household staff reveal.
The 'little dictator' was spoiled by his late father with video games, pinball machines and a luxurious cinema for watching Ben Hur, Dracula and James Bond.
Kim Jong-il gave his son a specially modified car at the age of seven and the boy wore a Colt .45 handgun on his waist at the age of eleven while living at the colossal gated compound where he grew up in Pyongyang.
His late father ensured Kim 'grew up thinking he was special,' Washington Post journalist Anna Fifield describes in her biography, 'The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un.'
Kim Jong-un pictured wearing Mickey ears with his father Kim Jong-il - the North Korean leader visited Disneyland Pairs as a child while enjoying a luxurious upbringing
Kim Jong-un (left) was basketball obsessed and would wear his Chicago Bulls Michael Jordan jersey while trash talking his peers (his hero, right)
His imperious nature perhaps most impressed upon his father who favoured Kim to his older half-brothers Kim Jong-nam and Kim Jong Chol, Politico revealed.
Kenji Fujimoto, a Japanese chef who cooked for the children told the biographer Kim's 'sharp eyes,' ran straight through him with the sentiment, 'You abhorrent Japanese.'
Twelve-year-old Kim was packed off to boarding school in Bern, Switzerland, where he was known to be an aggressive basketball player, talking trash to his opponents while sporting his Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls jersey.
The youngster - who joined his half-brother in Switzerland - went incognito as 'Pak Un,' wearing Nike shoes and tracksuits with his 'pudding bowl' haircut.
He basked in the sun on the French Riviera, went skiing in the Alps, dined on Italian cuisine and wore Mickey ears at Disneyland Paris.
The Swiss attorney general was fully briefed on who the boy was, but in their famously close-lipped culture, Carla Del Ponte forbade authorities from monitoring him.
This freedom to absorb Western civilisation, to learn of the French Revolution and
