Baal is talking about the fat leader's upbringing, but it seems like a moot subject, like what kind of upbringing would you expect given who his father was?
what seems quite dangerous to me is we're in a time when the generation that was alive before the period these 2 countries were at war is disappearing.
metaphysics ofc is bullshit, but can you just imagine the fabric (I can't think of a better word) between people unlucky enough to be stuck in a situation like this? like imagine the discomfort if you were stuck at some kind of progressive sensitivity lecture and turned and made eye contact with someone else, multiplied by about ten thousand and with the caveat that you can get shot at any moment
I bring up Cambodia a lot but it really is fascinating to me that that country was able to recover. it's not the most perfect country on Earth, they have human trafficking problems and so on. Cambodia lost 25% of its population, but remember. now, they were occupied by Vietnam, and in all likelihood the DPRK will have to be occupied or still sectioned off at first, because... I mean, just because? the country is so different and will need so much work that the reunification process, you can't just snap your fingers, it's not like East Germany.
you don't need a "movement" to overthrow the system, in my opinion. what you have to understand is both sides of the 38th parallel were authoritarian until quite recently - this is partly from influences of imperial japanese rule combined with being budding countries. what i'm saying is the culture is balanced a little differently. ever watch a fight from korea's parliament? park geun-hye's father was assassinated less than 40 years ago. they do things a bit differently, as you'd expect, and we have to keep that in mind. this isn't a racist statement, i'm just saying up until very recently politics has been quite Roman on both sides. we forget this because most of us live in safety, but there very recently have been, and still are around the world, countries where shooting people is par for the political course. latin america, africa. asia. there IS a political landscape in the DPRK, it's just that we aren't privy to it. but it exists, which is why hundreds of thousands of people are in camps and there are political purges and people
what's more likely to happen. rather than a movement/national revolution, is a conspiracy or coup. unfortunately we're in a downswing right now because the fat leader fucking executed huge numbers of the old guard, people from his dad's regime.
there are examples of "communist" governments that at least kept their people fed. cuba and vietnam settled down, for example. the bright future of the DPRK will start with a military coup. it IS a country where you can get disappeared for picking up a leaflet or having any kind of information that isn't state-approved, but I can guarantee, or rather I would wager, and not just from foolish optimism, that the powder keg is growing. the more connected and globalized the rest of the world becomes, the more liberal, the longer it continues, that much more information about reality seeps into the country, including from DPRK people who live and work abroad and people, especially Asians, who work or do business there. it's not impossible to imagine the DPRK opening up like this on the long road to reunification, and it seems more likely if the dear leader's heart would stop. he's like 130kg, i'm being a little bit optimistic but i really believe he'll probably just die or get shot eventually
i am making an assumption here that the fat leader won't start the process of fixing his country by himself. just if you look at his history so far, cut all ties from his father's regime, which is when the sunshine period happened, plus the psychological profiling.
hopefully the fat asshole dies of an embolism and saves us the trouble. I want to make this totally clear. the Kim dynasty is fucked anyway, there is nobody else left to rule. his baby is a daughter iirc, his older brother couldn't be a leader, nor his uncle, i think his uncle is still alive. even if he had a baby boy right now, in the 25-30 years it would take for that kid to grow up, do we really think nothing would happen? mr. kim wouldn't have a heart attack or get a lead capsule in his stomach? it's over, we're living in the time of the last of this dynasty.
there is no country on Earth quite like the DPRK, I don't know that there ever has been. it's like Stalinism on an island. ISIS is brutal, but fleeting. let me elaborate that. on the one hand it seems comparable if you look at the crimes against humanity. what i'm saying is ISIS leans more towards chaos (also because it's trying to survive in a warzone - of its own creation) whereas the DPRK leans more towards an orderly totalitarianism, which is the most terrifying. DPRK is more like Baathist Iraq. ISIS is nihilistic, but this is total fascism. perhaps it's not a real distinction, maybe all I'm pointing out here is that ISIS is "new" and probably won't last. the DPRK and the Baathist regime, these have staying power.
why the nuclear weapons specifically are a problem is because they DO dampen how much people from outside the country can try to sort of guide the country along. it also makes this conversation a real, although unlikely, long-term problem:
Kim: hi ms. park
Park: yes fat asshole?
Kim: i'm president of ur country now
Park: lol no
Kim: yes, i'm president, or else.
tl;dr within 30 years, the mausoleum of Kim-Il-Sung will only be famous for being the largest holocaust museum on the planet. |