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>THE teachers at his posh Swiss school suspected something was amiss when Pak Un’s mum and dad never turned up for parents’ evenings.
Staff were continually fobbed off with various excuses by the teenage pupil’s shadowy chaperones about why the pair could not attend the end of term meetings.
But they never guessed the real reason Pak’s father was never present – because he was a tyrant busy running a ruthless dictatorship 5,000 miles away.
“Pak” was, in fact, future dictator Kim Jong-un – the youngest son of North Korea’s recently deceased leader Kim Jong-il and the next head of the nuclear state.
For over two years Jong-un was secretly educated at the Liebefeld-Steinholzi school in Liebefeld on the outskirts of Bern.
Ironically, the curriculum at the school – whose motto is “We produce quality” – included lessons in democracy, a way of life that oppressed North Koreans have no experience of.
While he was there, Jong-un immersed himself in student life – going out for pizzas, hanging out with friends and playing basketball.
Swiss authorities were told “Pak” was the son of an employee at North Korea’s embassy when he enrolled in August 1998. And although Jong-un kept his identity secret from his teenage classmates there were tantalising clues about who he really was.
Well-heeled “Pak” arrived in Switzerland with a “fantastic” collection of Nike trainers worth thousands of pounds.
His close schoolfriend Nikola Kovacevic recalled: “We only dreamed about having such shoes. He was wearing them.”
Each pair of his trainers were worth more than four times the average monthly salary in North Korea. Yet as he paraded around in them, his fellow countrymen and women were starving to death as a result of a devastating famine.
“Pak” lived in a large flat at No 10 Kirchstrasse, a sedate suburban street with two pizza cafes, a bank and a Co-op supermarket. It was sparsely furnished but filled with NBA memorabilia – including photos of him with basketball stars Kobe Bryant and Toni Kukoc. Friends say he was “obsessed” with basketball and showed “absolutely no interest” in politics.