Posted on 02/09/2012 6:59:21 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Neither Mission nor Prudence in Kim's Expression
By Park Seong Guk
[2012-02-09 11:12 ]
Kim Jong Nam has revealed more about the rule of Kim Jong Eun and his view of the future of North Korea in previously unreleased e-mails between he and Tokyo Shimbun editor Yoji Komi .
“In that young man’s expression I can see neither the mission nor the prudence of a man who has become the successor to a troubled country like North Korea, nor the expression of a man worrying about a future vision for the state,” Kim is quoted as saying in one of the correspondences.
“In North Korea, the amount people who are earning money have to pay in bribes to high-ranking officials in order to survive is rising. A corrupt system like this absolutely will collapse. It reminds me of the Soviet Union right before it collapsed,” he reportedly goes on.
“The people’s trust in the North Korean leadership collapsed thanks to the currency redenomination,” he also comments in an e-mail dated December 13th, shortly before the death of Kim Jong Il on the 17th. “An ageing leader, an inexperienced successor and a sunk economy… nations surrounding North Korea can’t help seeing it as dangerous.”
“North Korea passed responsibility onto Party Planning and Finance head Park Nam Ki and executed him, but the people all know perfectly well that the currency redenomination could not have been done by a mere cadre,” he adds.
Kim also offers a withering critique of the North Korean regime’s propagandist media in a November exchange, saying of Workers’ Party publication Rodong Shinmun, which is now available in print and online in both Korean and English, “They don’t have enough paper to print it so people can’t read it. For the electronic version you need to have a computer, but how many North Korean people actually have one… and even if they do, there is no electricity so how are they going to use it.”
The formerly unreleased set of e-mails are to be officially released by Japanese monthly magazine Bungeishunju in its March edition, but were revealed by South Korean daily newspaper Donga Ilbo today.
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He can get his crazy credentials by killing his brother. Probably will too.
If they do, it’s probably because he is a relatively sane alternative, which doesn’t speak much for the leadership assets of North Korea.
It could also be China opening the door to reunification or taking North Korea over, because even China knows the North Korea is unsustainable and something has to give.
I wonder how long before little brother tries to have Kim Jong Nam eliminated?
Nam is a high-stakes Chinese investment.
China wants to avoid having a re-unified, (and eventually) rich Korea sitting directly astride her border.
Right. N. Korea is in terminal descent, as Chia Head health had been until last year. It is a matter of when and how, not if. As for “when,” it would be in a couple of years at most. As for “how,” that is an interesting question. However, under any scenario, it would be messy. If S. Korea, U.S. and China are politically stable, the regime’s breakup could compel them to intervene and stabilize things on their favor, creating a tense stand-off. If some or all are not politically stable(probably due to economic problems,) the relatively stable one gets to run the show. If both U.S. and China are seriously distracted by internal problems, N. Korea may not resist the temptation to act proactively and mount full-scale military attack on S. Korea, making full use of their asymmetrical asset(nuke, biochem, and special forces.) For example, their special force smuggle WMD’s into Seoul and threaten to detonate them, also demanding frontline troops of SK to pull back from DMZ, allowing NK’s conventional force to walk in. Once Seoul is in their hand, sue for peace.
Agreed. I think they believe that Unified Korea can put strategic pressure on China’s east coast and Manchuria.
China always secured their east with Korea as a szcerin. Go from Qing Dynasty back to Yuan Dynasty, China one way or another controlled Korea indirectly. China will attempt the same strategy because she has all the time to do it. She will accept a neutral unified Korea if the US leaves the peninsula. Otherwise she would take control of the North and use it as a buffer zone against US encroachment. It means the current rogue regime in North Korea must transform or be replaced by a Chinese puppet. There is no Soviet Union to counter Chinese encroachment on North Korean independence.
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