Interview with the dictator's grandson; Kim Han-Sol talks about travel, culture, and his grandfather Kim Jong-Il...

There's a couple of obvious demographics that contribute to global nomadism and the intercultural experience...missionary, military, politics and the arts are probably the four biggest global nomad fields--both for professional nomads and for creating new ones.

Of the four, I've been wondering whether it's politics or art careers that are the rarest of intercultural professions. I'll talk about artistic nomads in (several) future posts, but today I'm more focused on politics. Blame the upcoming US presidential elections and the upcoming UK referendum vote.

If you count all of the military nomads who go on to ambassadorial careers, politics isn't a rare thing at all. In fact, military and political are often so closely intertwined in the global consciousness that there's no distinction at all. But if you narrow it down to ambassadors, embassy workers, envoys, and diplomats, the demographic becomes much narrower.

It gets even narrower if you think of the interculturally raised children of globally notorious politicians. Which brings me to a video I found, courtesy of The Korean's Facebook page.

Apparently the late Kim Jong-Il's 18 year old grandson is studying at a European university and granted an interview to Finnish TV. His candor and open-ness are refreshing, as are his simple insights on his experience as a global nomad and an intercultural child of political origin.

Here's part 1;

And part 2;

Watch this space--I'll be keeping media tabs on Kim Han-Sol simply because I hope he survives to be a diplomat or whatever else he wants to be. The saddest part of this whole situation is that all of the things that make this a charming, interesting interview also may be placing this young man's life at risk. His uncle, Yi Han-Yong, when caught publicly speaking about his defection, was summarily murdered.

Spy and assassin are two demographics of global nomad that I don't want to address in this blog. Best of luck, Kim Han-Sol