The public sentiment in North Korea is the worst..."Kim Jong Un brought himself into crisis" [Y transcript]

■ Host: Anchor Jang Won-seok and Anchor Yoon Bori
■ Starring: Cho Han-beom, chair researcher at the Korea Institute for Unification,

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◇Anchor> So, do you think that trying to erase the traces of unification even by changing the constitution will clarify the ideology?

◆ Cho Han-beom> He seems to be so tough on the surface, but he made such a dangerous choice. Juche ideology is the core of North Korea, and Juche ideology is nationalistic communism. Nationality and unification are the key. It's an adventure to touch this. What that means is that they are so afraid of contact and connection with us.The closer we get to

, the closer the system competition is, the more overwhelming reaction to the Korean Wave, the Pyongyang Cultural Protection Act, and extreme punishment for North Korean defectors are all the same. So, if we separate into a completely different country, our goal is to maintain our dictatorship without being affected by us.

However, no one knows how the aftereffects will come out even if they are reflected at the Supreme People's Assembly tomorrow because they are in direct conflict with the existing North Korean ideology. Perhaps the most terrifying thing about dictatorship is ideological confusion.

He came to power because of his grandfather and father's halo, but he directly rejects his grandfather and father's wishes. Even North Koreans in Dandong can't answer when asked to delete the unified people, they can't explain. Until now, what has criticized us has been anti-unification and anti-ethnicity, but rather, they are putting themselves on the line. So you can say you're doing something very dangerous.

◇ Anchor> The non-directed Jang Ki-soo, who was sent to the North, was originally called a unified patriot, but he is removing the unifier and removing the traces one by one. You said North Korea's intention. If implemented in practice, could North Koreans or high-ranking officials protest or refuse to accept it?

◆ Cho Han-beom> It's difficult in the short term. It's such a systematic situation that resistance is impossible. However, in a situation where it was difficult to explicitly resist the Kim Jong-un regime, North Koreans got a justification. Because if Kim Il-sung's authority is 100, Kim Jong-il is less than 50 and Kim Jong-un is less than 10.

But with less than 10 authorities, this speeding idolization that erases grandfather and father, pioneering his own era. It's the same for Kim Joo-ae. He's trying to create a new dynasty that started with him. But even though they don't talk about it on the outside, it was their pride, in other words, the only thing they had about the governance system within the North Koreans.

When I met North Korean officials when inter-Korean relations were good in the past, I was very proud of the unified people. You have a lot of money, but you are soulless. I said we have a soul. Now, when you don't have money and you don't have a soul, you're just a beggar. So, to put it seriously by causing ideological chaos on your own, the act of stamping yourself in the foot can be seen as territorial regulations and the deletion of the concept of a unified nation. The aftereffects, in my opinion, are probably long-term and possibly fatal.

◇Anchor> Even if North Koreans can't easily accept this, North Korea says that even if only three North Koreans gather in this system, one of them will be monitored. Can it lead to resistance from the residents, realistically?

◆ Cho Han-beom> In the case of the Romanian regime, almost 10% of the population was a surveillance agent. There was one wiretap for every three or four people. But it collapsed. The most important thing about dictatorship is fear. It's the authority that's forced after that. But these things seem funny because they shake the authority of the Kim Jong-un regime, internally.

In the past, for example, whether it was a nation or unification. It's because of the division that we're having a hard time. Everything about unification is better when it is unified. I've been brainwashing it like that, but there's no justification for it to survive because I shook it up.

Then you can't explain why the Kim Jong-un regime is needed or why it succeeded to power. On top of that, the economy is at its worst. Sinuiju and Uiju Yalu River flood. It's going into winter without being restored. a double robber Public sentiment there is at its worst. So, it can be said that you are causing a crisis yourself to the point where you wonder why you make such a dangerous choice.

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: Lee Sun Digital News Team Editor

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