When the world community learned about Kim Jong Il's successor in 2011, no one was sure of Kim Jong Un's exact age or any other fact from his life, not to mention the young leader's plans to rule the country . His figure is still surrounded by myths and speculation - from assurances that he has been driving a car and piloting airplanes since childhood, to bloody stories about unwanted members of the Kim family who “disappeared” on his orders. For her book, The Washington Post journalist Anna Fifield collected all the information about Kim Jong-un that could be found to create the most reliable portrait of the most mysterious leader of the most closed state in the world. She conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with both those who personally interacted with Beloved and Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, and with those who fled from the regime or were treated kindly by it. The author met with the Kim family sushi chef, who was something like a playmate for little Kim Jong-un; found his aunt and uncle, his guardians, who had fled to America while the young heir was studying in Switzerland; spoke with the people who accompanied Dennis Rodman during his basketball-diplomatic mission to North Korea. Here is a fascinating biography of a basketball fan, a cartoonish dictator and a calculating strategist whose goal is to prove his strength and preserve the regime he inherited against all odds.