Kim Jong-un’s Swiss childhood home identified

A former neighbour has identified the house where North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is likely to have lived during his time in Switzerland. It’s in a suburb of the capital Bern, where a group of people from the North Korean diplomatic mission kept to themselves and where four young boys were “constantly playing basketball”.  “They never greeted or looked at anyone,” Victor Schmid, who lived across the street at the time, told swissinfo.ch. Schmid is a communications consultant in Bern who also advised former Swiss Foreign Minister Flavio Cotti. He says the house in question is located at Kirchstrasse 10 in the Bern suburb of Liebefeld, near where the North Korean embassy was located at the time.  Schmid’s story was recently reported by Claude Longchamp, director of the gfs Bern research and polling institute, on his personal blog. Following a story in the Washington Post revealing that Kim’s aunt who accompanied him to Switzerland is now living in the United States, ...