Kim Jong Un in Critical Condition
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According to a reporter for NBC citing 2 individual US officials, US officials believe Kim to be brain dead after undergoing surgery for a cardiac event. The reporter has since deleted the tweet to wait upon further confirmation. https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/1252419884023087106
According to a reporter for Bloomberg citing White House officials, US officials believe Kim is in poor condition if alive, or dead. The White House is looking into who would succeed Kim if he dies. https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/12524264588630261...
https://twitter.com/rover829/status/1252428970760388610?s=21
Well, I would rather trust S.K. officials than U.S. officials in the current administration. Even Joo Seong-Ha, one of the most trustworthy source for North Korea, asserts that this is a 100% false report.
So, hard to say, but unlikely to be good implications.
Hell, enough turmoil that you don’t get shot when fleeing across the border would be an improvement.
Also it’s not the NK government starving its citizens to death (that strategy doesn’t make sense to keep the power), it’s the US by imposing economic sanctions. The live of the people in this country would improve if they were allow to do business with the rest of the world.
Finally, the divide exists uniquely because of US intervention, and the state would probably have normalized its relationships to the world by now, like China and Vietnam did, if there wasn’t the forced antagonism caused by an enemy state existing just South.
From Wikipedia:
> The Juche theory is the belief that through self-reliance and a strong independent state, true socialism can be achieved.
This isn't really started strongly enough about their views (or at least what they tell their citizens) as regards self-reliance. Most of the famines there have been caused by incompetence. But they are called the Hermit Kingdom for a reason. They want to do it themselves.
They have the resources to create nuclear weapons, but not feed their population? I honestly don't understand how people can make excuses for a regime that had literally provided no value to their people or the world except for war, murder, and suffering.
Note: Was a Korean linguist in a branch of the US military. Might make some people think I was brainwashed, but actually just gave me actual context on the country and it's people.
Those are just words. The actual philosophy is that the Kim dynasty wants to play god with their own little world, without consequences. They've had 80 years to establish the Socialist Dream and instead continue to be nasty, petty tyrants. They've no more interest in socialism than does a schoolyard bully.
> They want to do it themselves.
They as in the average NK working in a field? He'd happily eat US-provided wheat, if the regime let him do so without punishment.
Or they as in the dynasty who go abroad for education instead of 'doing it themselves' and who relied on Pakistan nuclear scientists instead of 'doing it themselves' and who rely on Chinese and Russian armaments to maintain their regime of fear? I mean to get to Pyongyang you have to fly on a Russian-built airliner...
The division exists as a result of WW2, and all the antagonism came from the north: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Korea
> Also it’s not the NK government starving its citizens to death (that strategy doesn’t make sense to keep the power), it’s the US by imposing economic sanctions.
Not that I agree economic sanctions are good policy, but the sanctions exist largely because NK is developing nuclear weapons which they view as more important than feeding their people. NK is in the driving seat here and could drop their nuclear program at any time.
> You are assuming most people want to quit their country
We can only assume, we can't exist run a poll in the worlds most totalitarian regime. The desire to be well nourished is a fairly safe assumption though.