First pictures of Kim Jong Il's grandson at school in Bosnia; headmaster presser

Описание: (14 Oct 2011) SHOTLIST
14 October 2011
1. Wide exterior United World College building
2. Mid school door with sign
3. Wide college building
4. Wide of windows of the college
5. Mid inside college, students walking in the hallway
6. Wide students inside school walking up stairs
7. Wide press conference of United World College, officials
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Meri Musa, college spokeswoman:
(Q) Is he a family member of ...?
"We are not making comments about any family background of any kind. Kim Han Sol is a North Korean citizen, that's the only thing that I can share with you, because that is how is he represents his country."
9. Close sign of the college
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Meri Musa, college spokeswoman:
"We hope that all our students in two years will go through transformative power of the UWC education and they will prove that they are selected based on their ideals and their will to change this world for the better."
13 October 2011
++DUSK SHOTS++
11. Wide of student believed to be Kim Han Sol climbing up stairs to dormitory
12. Various of dormitory
STORYLINE
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's grandson was starting classes at a private high school for international students in Bosnia, an official said on Friday, as a media scrum competed for a glimpse of the teenager.
Officials at the United World College's branch in Mostar said 16-year-old North Korean student Kim Han Sol came to Bosnia a month-and-a-half after classes started because he was refused a visa to Hong Kong, where he had planned to study at another branch.
He is the first student from North Korea to attend any of the 13 United World College schools across the globe.
An official confirmed he was Kim's grandson on condition of anonymity because she was not permitted to speak publicly.
Officials have been publicly cagey about the boy's identity, but the chairman of the school's founding board has acknowledged that the acceptance of a North Korean
student from what he called a very well-known family has generated controversy.
"We are not making comments about any family background of any kind," said Meri Musa, a spokeswoman for the college.
The school maintains that his attendance is a step toward bringing North Korea closer to the rest of the world. The United Colleges movement was founded in 1962 with the aim of overcoming Cold War divisions, and selects students with a sense of idealism who aspire to "change this world for the better," Musa said.
The school in Mostar, 60 miles (100 kilometres) south of Sarajevo, opened in 2006 and now has 124 students from 34 countries and territories, including Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories.
The school is located at the former front line dividing Mostar in two when war broke out between Muslim Bosnians and Catholic Croats in 1992-95.
The opening of the school was credited with contributing to reconciliation in the city.

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