Kim Jong Un in Pictures

[Razzle]

When you look at it, it says a lot more about our own media, and our own people, that we're more concerned with a ruler like this because he's eccentric, and the whole show seems weird, than with leaders like Mugabe who've been doing (arguably) far worse things with their power for many years.

I think the attention is less due to his personal eccentricities and more the fact that a) they're a nuclear threat, unlike most malign dictatorships, and b) North Korea is a fascinating, unique social experiment. A whole country in which most people are genuinely believing members of a creepy, destructive cult. They literally think that family are gods. Now I don't know what a real god would look like, but how brainwashed would you have to be to believe it would be like that guy!?  

Even people who've escaped, have required years of de-programming in order to shake their belief that he can read their minds from afar and therefore will know where they are and could still send people after them. 

In the past, many dictators were worshipped as gods, most famously in ancient Egypt and Rome. To see that alien concept in action today is what makes North Korea more interesting than your average hellhole country.