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reticent

Kim Jong Il viewd Kim Jong Chul as too reticent. In one of his books about North Korea, Fujimoto quotes the Dear Leader as saying that Kim Jong Chul ''resembles a girl'' - hardly an asset in male-dominated North Korea.   <Time magazine, February 27, 2012> 

Reticent 


 
Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily
  • she was extremely reticent about her personal affairs

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