Are you like me? In the absence of any information about him, did you entertain a weird moment of hope that Kim Jong Il’s son was maybe going to be somehow more grounded and in the real world and might be like some sort of storybook prince who makes up for the evils of his father, the wicked king?

Like how, in myth, Arthur was good and virtuous, following Uther Pendragon, who was not?

Who knows, he may well yet be. Here’s hoping. But I gotta tell you, wrong as it is to judge books by their covers and all, when I finally saw a picture of Un, my hopes on this score were deflated. He looks like a Korean Francis Buxton from PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE. I fear he may be intent on stealing South Korea’s awesome bike. “It’s my birthday, and my father said I can have anything I want.”