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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
I remember you having a great thread sharing knowledge about NK years ago. Will be interested to hear your thoughts as this goes along.
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While I knew that King Jung-Un was the likely successor to his father, and I believed he would be a hardliner, I didn't see him being such a comic book level supervillian.
We can say a lot about Kim Il-Song and his son Kim Jong-Il, but at the end of the day they were pretty cagey operators on the world stage. They both knew how to play pressure and back off to get things like international aid, they had a key understanding of how to make money for themselves, and how to manipulate the factions in their government.
I don't think Kim Jong-Un was quite as subtle as his father and grandfather. He didn't understand pressure points and when to back off. He also did a purge without thought.
If you ever want to see how someone seizes control of a government and purges his enemies, read up on the Kapsan Faction and Kim Il-Song