“Crime Scene: Tyrant Murder”
This is how Kim Jong-un became the role model for the story
Kim Jong-un is said to have gone to a private school in Switzerland.
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What does North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un have to do with “crime scene: tyrannicide”? A lot: His childhood story was the inspiration.
A dictator’s son incognito at a European boarding school? The latest “crime scene: tyrannicide” with federal police officer Thorsten Falke aka actor Wotan Wilke Möhring (54) shows what at first glance appears to be a completely fictional story: an unscrupulous autocrat from the invented South American country of Orinaca sends his son and bodyguard to an expensive and respected private school Northern Germany. There the future head of state should enjoy a Western education. The special thing: nobody knows that it is the son of the dictator. The official story: The boy is the ambassador’s son.
Is this story really entirely fictitious? No, at least it is actually based on a real case, which, however, cannot be officially confirmed to this day. However, if one believes originally Japanese newspaper reports, today’s North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un (38) spent a large part of his childhood in Switzerland. He went under the name Pak-un as the alleged son of an embassy employee from 1993 to 1998 at the International School in Gümlingen near Bern.
Is Jong-un really Pak-un?
Research by the Swiss media confirmed these reports. Kim Jong-un could have lived in Switzerland since 1991, went to another school in Bern from 1992 and later – before studying in North Korea – attended a public school in Köniz from 1998 to 2000. Kim Jong-un was a rather bad student and was passionate about playing basketball. At the time, his aunt pretended to be his mother. In addition, he always had a bodyguard at his side, former schoolmates report.
Examination of class photos later revealed a 95 percent probability that the North Korean student and Kim Jong-un were the same person. However, other reports also speak of the possibility that the student could be Kim Jong-un’s brother. The stories can probably never be fully explained. Another indication of his longer stay in Switzerland is the fact that Kim Jong-un, when he met his South Korean colleague Moon Jae-in (69) in 2018, had rösti and a Gruyere cheesecake served for dessert.
Screenwriter Jochen Bitzer officially took Kim Jong-un’s story as a model
The screenwriter Jochen Bitzer (57) confirmed in the run-up to the thriller that he had been inspired by the Kim Jong-un reports: “My story was actually inspired by a press release about Kim Jong-un, who twenty years ago went to a boarding school in to have visited the Swiss capital Bern.” He would have been particularly interested in the question of what concept of freedom the young people have.