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According to high level defectors Kim has not been the one actually in charge rather the group in their governance who controls the revenue flow ‘the Organization and Guidance Department, or OGD’....It is Kim's fathers “old-boy’s network” made into a massive surveillance organization.

I believe very possible the execution of Jang Song Thaek [Kim Un’s uncle], and the poisoning of his brother was determined and carried out by the OGD...not Kim. Thus preventing him from consolidating his power.

(One defector stated how he saw the population in the capital city:

“One I will call 'the loyal class'.. This is the class that is invested, that has a stake in this continuation of the status quo, of oppression and surveillance and control.”

“The other class are 'the market classes', Their livelihoods are not sustained by the system, but actually oppressed by it.”

We know that Kim formally took over 'an existing system' his grandfather had created. The shadowy group behind him needed a frontman to keep the people at bay.)

Consider the most rabidly loyal adherents to any cult religion you care to name. Such people do not, as a general rule, rebel against 'the public face' of that cult religion. North Korea simply created it "artificially" and positioned 26 yr. old Kim Un as the object of that mindless devotion.... Hence, the "faithful" accept whatever comes out of Big Brother's mouth, and those who question are labeled "heretic" or "infidel". ....

To the inner circle, it is not enough or too difficult to set up a system that is intellectually impregnable; they have enslaved their population's hearts and minds for decades until the last few years when information has steadily increased getting into the country.