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Originally Posted by Igottago
Exactly, these people have been raised to follow the doctrine of the regime since they were children. They literally do not know any different. Its kind of scary to think that such a huge amount of people can actually be psychologically and socially engineered into believing and behaving how you want them to. But with the air tight control the regime enforces on their populous, maybe it shouldn't be surprising. I would bet any real pockets of revolutionary thinking are very very small in North Korea, if they even exist at all.
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North Korea isn't a country. It's a grand experiment of the biggest religious cult in the world. Think "David Koresh" times about 24 million. The place operates by blackmailing the rest of the world into aid. It's military is the primary tool of that blackmail, and everyone in the region is happy to pay it as an annoyance.
The North Koreans literally believe their leader is a god. They also believe the rest of the world was destroyed in the Korean war.
There is no reasoning with them. There is no thirst for freedom. They frankly have no idea of how things work outside their borders. It's a medieval fiefdom, and when your population is more than happy to suffer starvation so long as your leader is taken care of... we'll you're not going to get any change.
I can guarantee we'll see very little change under the son. Who will probably be held up by the military leaders as a figurehead for the foreseeable future.