Chairman Kim’s dissolving kingdom

Annie

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A first I think, using the title as THE title. Wow, I think I will mark this day down. First Iraq, now this:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1462207,00.html

...We had already witnessed one sign that North Korea’s totalitarian system is dissolving, even as its leaders boast of owning nuclear weapons to deter their enemies.

“It’s just like the Berlin Wall,” Pastor Douglas Shin, a Christian activist, said by telephone from Seoul. “The slow-motion exodus is the beginning of the end.”

In interviews for this article over many months, western policymakers, Chinese experts, North Korean exiles and human rights activists built up a picture of a tightly knit clan leadership in Pyongyang that is on the verge of collapse...
 
onedomino said:
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I hope the regime collapses of its own totalitarian weight. But how long will that take? Two years ago there were reports of cannibalism in NK due to the chronic food shortages. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/08/wkor08.xml Yet the monster regime still stands. Kim still feeds the army. Such a police state may need to be pushed before it collapses.
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I hear you, but it's coming faster, money quote:

"According to exiles, North Korean agents in Beijing and Ulan Bator are frantically selling assets to raise cash — an important sign, says one activist, because 'the secret police can always smell the crisis coming before anybody else'."
 

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