North Korean Defector Says Kim Jong-Un’s Control Is Crumbling

nytimes.com ^ | 01/25/2017 | CHOE SANG-HUN

[bert]

I believe that China will bring about change in N Korea as it is at home.

The key is the theme of the article. NORKCOMS will gradually become NORKCAPS.

[sphinx]

I'd figure the Left would love the little urchin.

Good list, but you left out "Experienced at being worshipped like a god." The left clearly wants this in a leader figure.

[TBP]

Then now is the time to make a move.

[Rashputin]

Ok, we have this defector business out of the way, now comes the chorus singing, "give them aid to strengthen the faction that wants to oust Fatty"

JMHo

[PIF]

NK propaganda - if it were true then they would splash it everywhere. Just more showcasing for the gullible westerner.

The only ones who know it about the lies are lying with the fish or somewhere in pieces.

[jalisco555]

Why not read the book and see for yourself? I found it very enlightening and plausible.

[PIF]

Why would I (or anyone) read NK propaganda?

[ponygirl]

Unfortunately, his doing that probably got that woman sent to a death camp.

[jalisco555]

Sure didn’t read like NK propaganda to me. Just the opposite. For one thing the author opens the book by discussing her strong Christian faith. She then discusses a country where the government is losing control, where the people no longer believe the propaganda being fed them, where money can buy protection from the authorities and where capitalism is the only means for survival, and where the true believers in Communism all died in the famine.

[PIF]

Guess you haven’t read much propaganda then - its not supposed to look like what it is but real and true - the lie is that your babe is the only one making that claim - not even NK itself makes the claim - other than its showpiece mall and some other odds and ends.

Expressions of faith have nothing to do with truth or reality. An expression of faith in a published book is just do much trash without any reality that is later claimed. There is no connection between an expression of faith and a radical claim - you just have her word that both are so.

[UCANSEE2]