Jamie T on his six-year silence, the oligarchs and Kim Jong-Un

It's not every day you hear a love song about Kim Jong-Un.

But if you fire up Jamie T's new album and skip to a track called 50,000 Unmarked Bullets, that's exactly what you'll find.

The lyrics are slightly cryptic, but a reference to a "boarding school in Gumligen" unlocks the puzzle - as that's where Kim is said to have studied as a teenager in the 1990s under the name "Chol-pak".

"Well done! Good research", laughs the singer, of his full name Jamie Treays, when I advance the theory.

Then a break.

"Um, how do you explain that you wrote a song about Kim Jong Un?"

The explanation is actually quite solid. The song began as a songwriting exercise, in which he tried to imagine a situation "where you feel sorry for the son of a dictator".

"The idea is that he is on trial in The Hague for war crimes, but he fears that the transcripts do not show how romantic his time in high school with his girlfriend was", says the singer.

"He doesn't want her to hear the transcripts, because it's their ruined romance - and that bothers him more than anything."< /p>

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