[oyez]

Pyong-il has been exposed to the outside(capitalist) world, so he we will be held under quarantine until House Kim is satisfied that he is not infected with Western ideas. This is Stalinist SOP. This is one of the reasons the Soviets locked up their own POW’s after the end of WWII. Uncle Joe considered them to be a political liability so he accused them being traders and cowards, thus locking them away.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Yes, he saw a lot: the fall of Berlin Wall, execution of Ceausescu couple in Romania, the collapse of Soviet Union, and emergence of former East European countries as new democratic countries. Especially Poland. His children grew up in E. Europe, too.

Kim Jong-eun is very paranoid now, which put even a currently marginal figure like Pyong-il in danger.