By Kari Huus, NBC NewsThe 17-year-old grandson of late North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il granted a TV interview providing a rare look at a member of the secretive Kim family dynasty.
"I've always dreamed that one day I would go back and make things better and make it easier for the people there," Kim Han Sol said in the interview posted on YouTube.
Kim Han Sol grew up with one foot in a privileged international community on Macau and the other in North Korea, a country known for persistent hunger and political repression under the rule of his grandfather and great grandfather.
The teen appeared articulate and impeccably dressed in a 20 minute English-language interview with reporter Elisabeth Rehn, a former United Nations official and Finnish defense minister. It originally aired on Finnish television and was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, according a report by Radio Free Europe (http://www.rferl.org/content/kim-jong-il-grandson-kim-han-sol-steps-into-the-spotlight/24743768.html).
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