Let’s be positive!!! Remember, Nicolae Ceausescu learned his lession back in December, 1989.
Things are very different 20 years later. There is not a single anti-communist/pro-freedom corpuscle in the political body of this Current US Administration. We are in total APPEASEMENT AND PROP-UP MODE. So the North Korean People I think will have it many- fold more difficult than the Romanians had it, it would seem. Very sad.
GOP in MA wrote: “Let’s be positive!!! Remember, Nicolae Ceausescu learned his lession back in December, 1989.”
Yes, that is where I think this is going as well. The Romanian revolution started with the attempted eviction of a church pastor. Students surrounded his building to block the eviction, and events then spiraled out of control for the Ceausescu loyalists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Revolution_of_1989
A “currency reform” which robs almost everyone in the country sets the stage for the same sort of dynamic in North Korea.
North Korea is much more totalitarian and closed than Communist Romania ever was.
I do not think there is any hope of popular uprising. Their population control and repression against any shadow of dissent surpasses even Stalinist USSR. For example 10-20 familis in an apartment building are organized in a unit that is supposed to check and report on each other. If one member of a group turns out to be “an enemy of the state” not only his/her immediate family is also punished, but also members of the group for failing to notice/report this on time or allowing this to occur period.