This is the real danger to North Korea
At the young age of four, children in North Korea learn to bow to the giant portraits of the three leaders that the Kim dynasty has had: a traditional display of obedience that embodies Kim Jong-un's strategy to maintain its unquestionable power domain, said an ex-diplomat from North Korea before US lawmakers.
Both Kim Jong-un, his father Kim Jong II and his father Kim II Sung have carefully cultivated the perception that they are divine rulers. In addition, they consolidated their power by protecting the North Korean population from the outside world and by manipulating the country's welfare system.
"Until now, the North Korean system has been maintained through an effective and credible reign of terror and by almost completely avoiding the free flow of external information," said Thae Yong-ho, an exalted official in the country. he defected to South Korea.
Thae was second in command at North Korea's embassy in London, before he decided to escape with his wife and two children and arrive in South Korea in 2016.
"As long as Kim Jong-un is in power, there will be no possibility for the world to improve the human rights issue" or for the "nuclear program" to be canceled, he assured CNN last January.
While Kim has relied on decades of brainwashing tactics to elevate himself as a "god," in recent years growing curiosity about foreign culture and the increasing penetration of free-market capitalism have begun. to represent an internal threat to their domestic control system, Thae told representatives of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
"Great and unexpected changes are taking place within North Korea." Contrary to official policy and the regime's desire, free markets are flourishing ... citizens no longer care about state propaganda: more and more they watch Korean films and dramas illegally imported, "he revealed.
Kim has tried to stifle the demand for outside information by opening the archive of his father's foreign films, most of which were produced in the former Soviet Union and other socialist nations, Thae added.
In addition, the government of North Korea has also allowed to be available a select content of Western productions, including films such as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and the cartoon program "Tom and Jerry", detailed the former official. What for him represents a signal that the regime is concerned about the growing flow of unauthorized information in the regime.
Precisely, that concern lies in the fact that Kim has not experienced the same distant and protected lifestyle of those he governs: a reality that, if internalized by the population in general, could put his position as a deity at risk, Thae considered.
The survival of the regime
Although the United States has tried to increase diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea, with additional sanctions and harsh rhetoric, such efforts have failed to halt Kim's departure to develop a reliable long-range ballistic missile with a nuclear tip.
In the same vein, while China and Russia recently supported the new UN sanctions against North Korea, the willingness of these countries to use the influence they have on the regime and thus increase pressure remains in doubt.
Two senior US officials insisted on Tuesday that the Trump government remains committed to increasing pressure on the North Korean government through diplomacy. The above despite the message the president posted on his Twitter account earlier this month, noting that his secretary of state "wasted time trying to negotiate" with Kim.
Kim made it clear that he is willing to develop a long-range nuclear weapon and that for him to achieve that capacity is the key to ensuring the survival of the regime.
The North Korean military has been trained to unleash a massive artillery attack on Seoul, the capital of South Korea, at the first sign of an attack by the United States, Thae said, adding that a retaliation of this magnitude would cause massive casualties.
Reaching an intercontinental weapon of nuclear capability, Kim hopes to blackmail the United States to reduce its military presence on the Korean Peninsula.
Now, the North Korean leader believes that if US forces leave the peninsula so will foreign investments, causing the ruling class in South Korea to flee, Thae said. And this, he completed, would neutralize for Kim the main threat of his own regime.
With a nuclear capability, North Korea would also force Washington to assess the scope of its c
At the young age of four, children in North Korea learn to bow to the giant portraits of the three leaders that the Kim dynasty has had: a traditional display of obedience that embodies Kim Jong-un's strategy to maintain its unquestionable power domain, said an ex-diplomat from North Korea before US lawmakers.
Both Kim Jong-un, his father Kim Jong II and his father Kim II Sung have carefully cultivated the perception that they are divine rulers. In addition, they consolidated their power by protecting the North Korean population from the outside world and by manipulating the country's welfare system.
"Until now, the North Korean system has been maintained through an effective and credible reign of terror and by almost completely avoiding the free flow of external information," said Thae Yong-ho, an exalted official in the country. he defected to South Korea.
Thae was second in command at North Korea's embassy in London, before he decided to escape with his wife and two children and arrive in South Korea in 2016.
"As long as Kim Jong-un is in power, there will be no possibility for the world to improve the human rights issue" or for the "nuclear program" to be canceled, he assured CNN last January.
While Kim has relied on decades of brainwashing tactics to elevate himself as a "god," in recent years growing curiosity about foreign culture and the increasing penetration of free-market capitalism have begun. to represent an internal threat to their domestic control system, Thae told representatives of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
"Great and unexpected changes are taking place within North Korea." Contrary to official policy and the regime's desire, free markets are flourishing ... citizens no longer care about state propaganda: more and more they watch Korean films and dramas illegally imported, "he revealed.
Kim has tried to stifle the demand for outside information by opening the archive of his father's foreign films, most of which were produced in the former Soviet Union and other socialist nations, Thae added.
In addition, the government of North Korea has also allowed to be available a select content of Western productions, including films such as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and the cartoon program "Tom and Jerry", detailed the former official. What for him represents a signal that the regime is concerned about the growing flow of unauthorized information in the regime.
Precisely, that concern lies in the fact that Kim has not experienced the same distant and protected lifestyle of those he governs: a reality that, if internalized by the population in general, could put his position as a deity at risk, Thae considered.
The survival of the regime
Although the United States has tried to increase diplomatic and economic pressure on North Korea, with additional sanctions and harsh rhetoric, such efforts have failed to halt Kim's departure to develop a reliable long-range ballistic missile with a nuclear tip.
In the same vein, while China and Russia recently supported the new UN sanctions against North Korea, the willingness of these countries to use the influence they have on the regime and thus increase pressure remains in doubt.
Two senior US officials insisted on Tuesday that the Trump government remains committed to increasing pressure on the North Korean government through diplomacy. The above despite the message the president posted on his Twitter account earlier this month, noting that his secretary of state "wasted time trying to negotiate" with Kim.
Kim made it clear that he is willing to develop a long-range nuclear weapon and that for him to achieve that capacity is the key to ensuring the survival of the regime.
The North Korean military has been trained to unleash a massive artillery attack on Seoul, the capital of South Korea, at the first sign of an attack by the United States, Thae said, adding that a retaliation of this magnitude would cause massive casualties.
Reaching an intercontinental weapon of nuclear capability, Kim hopes to blackmail the United States to reduce its military presence on the Korean Peninsula.
Now, the North Korean leader believes that if US forces leave the peninsula so will foreign investments, causing the ruling class in South Korea to flee, Thae said. And this, he completed, would neutralize for Kim the main threat of his own regime.
With a nuclear capability, North Korea would also force Washington to assess the scope of its c
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