Kim Jong Un wrote his first thesis on military strategy when he was 16, the documentary claimed, and was hailed by his late father Kim Jong Il as "the multi-talented, genius of the geniuses in military knowledge."
In a televised new year address, Lee Myung Bak said he saw a "window of opportunity" for better relations with the North – but warned Seoul would "strongly respond" if Pyongyang's new leaders proved to be aggressive.
A New Year's message calls on "the whole Party, the entire army and all the people" to "possess a firm conviction that they will become human bulwarks and human shields in defending Kim Jong Un unto death."
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