Posted on 02/15/2017 1:12:23 PM PST by OddLane
This weekend saw wall-to-wall coverage of North Korea’s missile testing. But today the most important news in years came out of the DPRK, and the Western media is largely silent. This speaks to just how poorly understood North Korea remains, despite both increasing international scrutiny and an ever-growing body of information escaping from the country.
Kim Jong Il’s son, Kim Jong Nam, was found dead in Malaysia, reportedly murdered. There is perhaps no greater sign possible of the instability of the current DPRK regime. In fact, it was Jong Nam who was first groomed to succeed the Dear Leader. By all accounts, he would have tried to usher in enormous liberalization for North Korea—which is precisely why he was passed over.
The North Korea leadership bases its claims to authority on the “Mt. Paektu bloodline.” Mt. Paektu holds a mystical place of honor in the North Korean mythology, and was supposedly the location of the secret base camp for North Korea’s founder, the Great Leader Kim Il Sung. During the pre-World War II colonial period, Kim Il Sung was claimed to have led a band of guerrillas during the “years of anti-Japanese struggle.” It was there that Kim Jong Il is also (falsely) alleged to have been born...
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WHEW, For a moment I thought it was Kim Jong Un. I was ready to pop up my champagne bottle :)
More likely the continuing of the end. I believe the beginning was somewhat earlier.
History is repeating itself, in a mini-way. As far as NK is concerned, Il-Sung was their Tiberias, Jong-Il their Claudius, and Jong-Un their Nero.
If NK were as economically and militarily strong as ancient Rome, the Kim dynasty would be replaced, after sectional fighting, by something resembling the Flavian, with someone in the military top brass wresting power and re-establishing order.
Since NK is on the thin edge of an economic precipice, what is more likely to occur is its collapse into the arms of the South, which China will sit by and let happen because in the backrooms of Seoul and Beijing they will be assured that Korea has no aims in Manchuria or anywhere else, that they will perceive their main enemy to be Russia, and that a rejuvenated Korea is a barrier to any designs of the Japanese (not that the Japanese have any designs, but the Chinese are still angry about WWII).
Ping
I watched a NPR interview on YouTube of a defector from NK. He says if Kim Jung Jr gets to a point when he knows his reign is over he will use a nuke. He’s bat crazy and it’s all or nothing.
We need to check on that poison that she used....we are having trouble on our death rows executing people!!!
You all might find this video interesting about travel and propaganda in NK. This place is nuts and so so sad. Very insightful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24R8JObNNQ4&list=PL10943F1A08C72A17
You can say that again. It was just on the news that the whole operation took 5 seconds. Wow.
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