I wonder about King Jong Un.
Why did his father have him educated in Switzerland?
What do you do if you’re long range plan is to bring the people of your nation into the modern world that South Korea enjoys?
Well, one strategy is to maintain tight-fisted control over your country, make the military leaders absolutely fear you, then at the right time, when there’s a US President in office you can trust, you make the safe transition away from Communist failure.
The elites in other authoritarian countries also send their children out West for schooling. Xi Jinping’s daughter went to Harvard. Putin never appears with his children, but they live in Holland/the West, and foreign minister Lavrov’s daughter attended Columbia Univ. Same principle applies to the oligarch families even as they tout anti-Americanism and former glories of USSR to the masses.
The point is not communism being in full practice, but the historical revisionism, which subjugates the memory of people into denial about its catastrophic consequences and bloodshed — and subjects survivors to historical amnesia. You can face fines, exile, and even imprisonment for insulting the State-sanctioned and approved narratives about history. Especially in schools.