Informal Leader

Spokesman Report
Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea, is a very informal man.
Video footage of him continuously visiting people on his way of on-spot guidance
shows him bowing to the people who greet him and whispering into their ears.
They also show him unceremoniously sitting on the floor of the house he visited,
asking about their living and teaching the children how to draw pictures. He looks like a
head of the family, rather than the leader of a state.
His friendly attitude to the people is very impressive.
His attitude to the people is always unaffected and natural; wherever he goes he talks
to their officials as he does to his old friends, and wearing a bright smile, waves back to
their employees raising a cheer.
Following is a story about his unconventional trait.
On May 1, 2012, when he looked around a newly-built cultural and welfare facility for
the workers of a factory, he looked round the barber shop on the second floor.
While talking with the hairdressers, he found that they had practised haircutting in
Pyongyang; he asked them if he could have his hair cut there.
The women hairdressers were perplexed at his unexpected request, and could not
answer.
But when he asked who would cut his hair, they all volunteered to do so.
He said with a smile: Then shall I have my hair cut here?
The female hairdressers all cheered at that.
He said he would later find time without fail to have his hair cut there.
When he visited a kindergarten, newly built in Pyongyang, he saw a little girl playing
at being a doctor. He rolled up his sleeves and asked her to check his body. Placing a toy
stethoscope on his arm, the young “doctor” asked him, “What’re you ill with, sir?” This
scene struck the heartstrings of the people.
How could he mingle with the people so well? Maybe it is because he has an
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ennobling view on people that he is a son, a servant, of the people before he is the leader
of a state.
The Korean people follow him with sincerity, calling him “our Marshal” or “our
father.”