What North Koreans Think About Kim Jong Un

[JBeukema]

Autocratic regimes, by their nature, tend to view the opinions of their populations as a threat to be stifled. Over the years, leaders from Syria to North Korea have sharpened their tools of repression to squelch any sign of public dissatisfaction with their rule and keep their population's views a mystery to outside observers. As a result, information about how these citizens view their government has long existed in a vacuum -- at the mercy of hearsay and conjecture. But a small cadre of pollsters is using new technologies and practices to circumvent government restrictions and give a voice to the silenced. We like to call them guerrilla pollsters.

Want to Know What North Koreans Think About Kim Jong Un? - By Angela Hawken and Matt Leighty | Foreign Policy

 

[georgephillip]

Guerrilla pollsters.

What a concept.

Think it might catch on in Chicago?