the, the europe today is coming up next day due to view documentary on the king diamond state, that it's really north korea with an iron fist for 3 generations. but it's after a short break for me in the team here in berlin. thanks for watching. take care the via humming does not get drunk. why do gravitational waves squeeze all bodies? how much do we need to put a stop comp claim for help find beyond says get smaller on dw science out, take 10 of the it's a big day. so i came to a,

the daughter of north korean leader kim jong on not long ago, she began accompanying her father to military parades and rocket launches. even though she's believed to be only 11 or 12 years old. the well, she'd take over the helm, esther north korean dictatorship one day. and because of the iron grip on power that the kim tennessee has wielded for more than 7 decades, the

the, the funeral goes 2022 just 3 months after announcing its 1st case of cobit 19 north korea. declan pandemic was as a comrade, kim, jo, john, vice president of the central committee of the workers, party of korea to do comrade vision in the summer. and just review the 7 days of battle against the pandemic sheep in the last 90. 1 days i witnessed many dramatic situations and was hoping to

get him to substitute on that or this was the 1st be challenge by it came from one's youngest sister came jo joan on north korean television when she spoke about her brother's recovery from cove. it many in the audience went do wanna listen, lindsey, how soon is it in the also send you the total pension? it'll be a piece or she'll those with terrible moments when i was unable to help our great leader who put on wants to do more session. and most of the repair was that he had to confront the crisis alone, who missing a times distraught and despairing. when she goes and gone through, is there so some of the tuesday came you, joan is deputy director of the propaganda administrative. not a pop to her brother. she's widely regarded as the countries number 2 leader since 1948, 3 generations of the came family of rule the democratic peoples. repub make up north

korea on. did we talk absolute power to good hill? cynita the under the to the stairs or what are you talking about 10, your career doesn't have a monica and you'll get it so it doesn't have an oil fine, but i sent it to me instead, me like trace the lineage pack your what? my called the mount back to the top line. you go to look a symbolism. don't wait in the kind of more than one video, then that's when you're now act is a place of pilgrimage for policy members in north koreans coverage new. so you so,

but such similar to stuff gets revisit as the place where kim il sung, that the resistance against japanese occupation. there's also recalled it as the birthplace of kidney john hill. you'll get a bus home just to lift this from lift and go to the cross. can you still hear fornia? she's due to the power mill. so and kim jong hill, things we're going to say criminal as is this mountain? it's similar to what leslie had to manage the christians. getting this founding miss help secure the kim families hold on power, which is not quite as secure as it would be under a monkey that an aspect dictatorship had to create its own cult of personality and toll authority. the also to, to, to include those who the so so need to, to,

to, to talk to you the sort of in the propaganda message was repeated in chinese, japanese spanish and english move intended to suggest the north koreans that its leaders were also reviewed abroad. the climbing back to the sacred revolution, the mountain jim. it was 77 in motion. whenever i climbed mount packed or i think of camry jimmy, don't you to mount back to age as best placed on the trailing whately and richard his courage mount back to it's jim junior's mountain at the same time. s, being jim in a sense of mountain, the owners of

the entire family stands united at the helm of north korea, kim il sung, and his sons came, joan ill on the present and unforgotten giants, marvels of them, what even installed on the stage of the supreme people's assembly every decision made by came john own and his sister just came jo jones, i was an extension of the dentist that has rolled the country for a while about half a century and you're told she started to sell. the tennessee began with came also doing 1948 became the leader and founding father of north korea. in the 19th sixty's, a culture personality,

a matched which led to dictate to an almost god like status to this day came l. so is still regarded as supposed to bring him added tunnel leader of north korea. in 1994, the sun came, joan ill assumed power. according to legend, he was born on mount peck too, and was possessed of a powerful intellect and accomplishments. the camry, jim juno is an outstanding philosopher, statesman,

and leader. but most of tile talents and capabilities is not only the greatest ideological and see read the genius of the present time is the greatest man schumann history has ever produced. the greatest a man we as a versed in all the change on ill died in 2011. his youngest son, 27 year old, came joan on became his successor. at the time he was a complete unknown in north korea and abroad. but kim jong il had already paid the way by making strategic appointments to key positions before his death. the

as well as the a you had the tools and acquisition off. he was very young, senior with internet society and which seen yours who was extremely important. lots of to that was a problem for him versus guns with the others. also like you to tier to counter at that by dressing very conservatively. um, if we try to model himself on his grandfather in appearance, you know as a young man that length with some authority to my mind. cuz they are the, the, the, to the time that a full lender. nobody knew him. so suddenly he pay it. he looked a lot like email, so i don't even know if he's in law. who is that, or is that a candidate though? that's every public, a parent, kim jong. he's like his grandfather and spoke like him to talk to him. no,

i mean we're not going to look over that and just don't want to get down to go with you in a demonstration of power. kim jones on dismissed a number of functionaries. ready ready ready ready and ordered the arrest of his influential uncle jamestone tax. in december 2013, his uncle was executed for an edge to corruption. even the north korean press, domestic coverage was perennially slanted to the positive reported on james execution. the king john succeeded. is his father, you know, he's a young man. we had information that he had gone to school in switzerland. we

thought maybe this is a more customer politan sake here who understand the international community. maybe he wanted better relations with the world. we were wrong. it turns out kim john on is the most aggressive of the 3 kids, came jump on, installed his closest confidence at the center of pilot. above all, his sister came jo jones. the 2 of them had attended school together in switzerland and forged the relationship of unconditional trust. the board and vacation saw that if anything were to happen to came, jump on desist would be his successor. ensuring that the came finally would retain its hold on power. the

kind of give will be sweet, all commutable, one for the sale in north korea. there are 2 levels of legislation. database. first of all, we have a constitution. the bunch of populated states that north korea is a republican with general and secret election hungry on kind of the 2nd level is the parties that you choose. they state that the party leadership is hereditary samouce, and each generation comes from the camp family. tiny roll coat one to cut off. so the party is based on the ideology of kim il sung. and kim jong is a jet and is supposed to work on behalf of they're interested in well, and not the interests of the north korean people time to come in today. i'm kind of

time to go from both of the parties. statute clearly outbreaks. the constitution of the songs, any one who joins the party in north korea, must swear to sacrifice everything to ensure that the regime is preserved from one generation to the next 2 years. didn't you say? so if you go to it. so more than go through a package of all, i mean that's how the north korean system works is kind of central coolant to use. so across the similar to and i don't waste the north koreans as part of the regime that owes its allegiance to the kim denise d on the law day in and day out north to reinstate television. broadcast propaganda, images of a happy and prosperous people. the but the reality is more complex. the,

according to united nations reports in north koreans are obligated to keep watch over the neighbors and denounce any misbehavior. this network of mutual surveillance is intended to maintain control over that population and preserve an image of national pride. and contentment, the how they create units of 5 families, monitoring a java. you should set the above that you have him in the unit of 60 families in pens cause a mandatory peace headed every admin. bottom as a unit tab,

you should always know what's happening in every household. most people in the country that us has templates for 2 minutes of just going in and system. people go to any kind of look in the system of surveillance was created 75 years ago, which is how does evolved into a true system, entire arguments, all critically possible, which is typically wouldn't go still the, there's no civil society, there's nothing on which for example, and universities or religion or all the areas where we, we often see revolution get going. the north korea government says shut all of that down. the freedom of phones is not permitted in north korea. colleagues,

neighbors and even family members can turn on one another. according to radio reports, one young man was sentenced to death for smuggling. the south korean t. v series squeeze came into the country. he had been denounced by his parents. most people have no internet access and comp make international phone calls. the kind of jobs you got, cut them. no, we don't. we don't use as yet. i'm going to, i mean, in north korea it's, it's not just the convicted person who was punished, but the entire family more today you'll be just all. tell us what a son is shot for a crime against the fatherland. his parents, siblings, and even fellow students can be punished and discriminated against pretty easy about the tool or button you're not. i mean, okay, so what does that mean to come,

you know, anyone who would be prepared to sacrifice their own life or freedom and democracy really thinks twice before doing anything salvo call and i will have that are not doing no, they're also putting their entire family at risk equal to a p e. that's why the north koreans don't worry about. we quote your order. you'll know this is how the system maintains the status quotes. you can continue to jump in with you. if you are someone who desperately wants to free your people in north korea, maybe if it's just you, you would say, i'm willing to die for that to free my country. but are you willing to kill your grand parents and your children and your aunts and uncles? so that's the terrible, terrible way of control that the regime has over its people. you've done your students on the thought of the tongue about they knew it as soon as anyone is seen as a threat to execute a new bit on congress without an investigation on a trial or a judge. yeah, i don't know that about like

a yes or standard you. that's why came john the own was able to order the execution of his uncle with the jung songs tackle and his half brother to his half brother kim jong was murdered in 2017. at the airport in malaysia. so is it for the eyes of the entire world in front of a surveillance camera mobilized at us because the other opponents end up in labor and re education times international organizations estimate. there are about 20 such camps in the country. according to the handful of survivors who were able to escape conditions in the caps, re, i think most of the prisoners die of torture or hunger for as a result of forced labor. it's estimated that between 100200000 opponents of the regime currently incarcerated simons,

i've also kills millions of north koreans most during the 19 ages. and 1990 is statistics like these cars made knows korea one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. the, the old of all have under the time of when i arrived in south korea, i heard something i didn't understand called the national committee for human rights. so i asked what it was. they were surprised and asked me, don't you know, it's an organization that protects our rights as human beings. the i as to why do we need an organization like that they reply to it's normal? isn't there something like that in north korea? because the

they didn't understand toward complaint and every woman that we asked the word like 60 women, they didn't understand the work, the words complained. and so we had to really explain them in different boards what it means. and they said that, yeah, you can, you cannot complain the women's junior on the will complain against you that you didn't submit enough quote tests. so for them complained goes only one way the government can punish or to somehow criticize for not fulfilling certain duties that where they had such as bringing enough qual task. but they don't have complaints. so they don't understand that in normal country citizens have a right to complain. ready ready ready

ready ready korean capital kiln yang is home to about 3000000 people. ready the city lines on the tab on river, which is used as a source of hydro power and irrigation. the city center is a testament to the power of the can, tennessee. the defense ministry recalls north korea's great victories. the center of power is to come to some palace office on the official military parades are held in its full cost that you che, tower lies on the other side of the river to j is the official ideology of the

north korean regime and means and we'll talk a little self reliance is unofficially represents the cult of personality surrounding that came tennessee, which is also called k msm. in recent years, young jang has been transforming itself public transportation, which includes subways, bosses and st. cause is being expanded, not long ago, a swimming pool opened to george going your way, you know, things have to go to and serious. so since he took office, i control this focus mainly on the selection when it comes to try should have nuclear weapons and dig a 4 tons. he also invested a sizable portion of the military. bunch of the way down to the private sector being gumple. this expanded the like manufacturing 2nd time they come go to the gym . jo, issues with us from gift over put down your service and life in the

capital has also changed the city look small west to now. but the strict rules of the regime continue to hold sway these days more and more north koreans own a smartphone, but they can't be used for international calls. and only a few apps off emitted which have to be personally approved by came jump on himself . the more people also call nowadays on sundays the traffic is bulky on yang, on usually heavy small and so individual ality all taking hold in closing and fashion new buildings sprouting up oil changes intended to signal normality and modernity to the outside world.

is kind of my argument, our phones aren't this this evening, not quite based on my own observations. i can see that over the past 30 years and from life in north korea has an approved significantly and usually even for ordinary people, pass along is of course the baseline was very low. the, the things have definitely improve mentioned dorothy, i've, a lot of people to day have more options when it comes to consumption. swift and guns and that includes things like moving moods, transportation near long uh the country has modernized, long cuts, although it is important to know the p on. yeah. is we not the typical of north korea as a whole? north korea is as if you on yang is a level of love the rest of the country here. but in that respect and the nice design does not, i've travels across north korea and seem that things have improved everywhere for about p on yang stands out because that's where the leak live is on this. and of course, the leadership needs the support of a lease to maintain political stability and just had some push to lead the fee of a police officer study to paid. like i mean and cargo to enjoy a explain

a survey of north korean to flip the country that you don't want to dump countrymen do to, to the shows that i clearly prefer control home to his fault and that it can go into cooking people that can be doing so i feel more of a connection to him this time i can see that he improve this time that of life. uh . so do you mind yourself, john hill, the only kid about the military when putty. k. o. jim jones. oh, well as liver lies to promote to the market, it to god you know, such and get them was. so that's why they pidmoore hoping to have to jo. and when you're in cellar cause i'm on the printer so. so facilitate this all or community? can you tell me about done and don't wanna do so? question don't mind to dig. i'm gonna support the whole thing from the, from that that'd be on national television. the regimes propaganda machine offers a steady flow of evidence of progress in the country on every tv channel for news

concepts and describe the opening of factories and buildings and cutting tables any time the city's new bosses also get the fashion of attention you. when you came, jo, loan even made a personal appearance to inspect them before the camera. it's all up to you so you can, they're going to be cited when you got it. did you get closer to the noble determination of the policy and that you love? so the people had scaled a different reality go, you pointed to that goes with the are nice because she got so little is hand on the north korean media has definitely become more modern hot in into and you from doing you that wasn't gonna commit you to throw so fast cuts make television shows look much livelier than before. the phones are who will talk. you gave agent some because all those together on the

instead of just one tv channel, there are now full view is can choose between different shows which helps lend greater credibility to the programming and even the country's most famous and has been swept off in the winds. of change when you cut them to choose the kids all to come read. kim jones stood for a commemorative photo with the workers of korean television. it's woods and it's a pull down on. so what's the point that evolved since the 19 seventy's? 32, he has presented the country's most important news. torres audio service show and digital has yet to me. it was the we will fight against the enemy to go. you did tell them that you were potentate on everything from nuclear missile tests, to the meeting between kim jones on the tv stations, employees 3 to him, he was set to be his favorite news presenter.

a few days later came joan own presided over the you know, the ration ceremony for a new residential district. the dictator himself gave a reach him, he a key to a new luxurious residence. it was a reward, the loyalty to the regime. but as part of a wave of modernization for each one he was slated to be replaced by a young calling to get 7 know each that of a toll on the day you didn't owe him drunk. own himself, toby, there was nothing more valuable than such a loyal welcome. who's been working in the media for 50 years and not i will visit with vs what i'm going to kind of so really it's video guys your time in day to day go to menu and so you've had to go to all of the process in north korea serves a special purpose, could be the media professionals. who do i have to proudly call themselves the trumpeters of the revolution. to me only put you all how cool damage,

what you do. it's a, it's their job to support the revolution $100.00 and burnished the image of the great leader duty and mobilize the population, speak, carlos accumulate here, and then an issue. and hopefully soon you the, you're going to have him go to him. so tell me that thing to jump it along with the news programs north korean t. v. awesome grow costs, major propaganda events. sometimes mandatory parades often civilian events. good. good to go to board in the meanwhile, there's a huge budget for projects that are important to the country from to that's one of kim duncan's new initiatives. going, todd, it, it'll kill national ceremonies. are a much higher priority now than before. countrymen, they're supposed to make the populations proud at the party, and the machine i can see with the message that they're trying to convey is that kim jones, north korea, was getting stronger and stronger. typically, it's a powerful getting well controlled countries of continuing to develop. i'm

interested in that i so typically that would be an impact on the mobile device. no, to him. those over time, dynasties, lose their legitimacy. good memories of the past begin to fade in that an adult. the grandfather waged, a war of liberation against the japanese, which was the basis of his legitimacy. okay. and kind of what you personally did when i, what 7080 years after the war means that legitimacy is fading creek up kim jones. and this is under a lot of pressure to find a new basis for his power to come someone up on this window. tell him what conditions are your me see what we use to we are to mostly put so despite the strict regime north korea's ion cotton has sprung. a few leaks. videos from south korea are being smuggled into the country more and more often. so

you do the officially north korea. com to receive any south korean television content. bobs boot like copies of south korean t v series. and k pump videos are circulating widely the south korean activists regularly send helium balloons across the border along with pamphlets. the balloons sometimes carry us, be stakes with western entertainments. the countries didn't know how to believe to come, but of course it's as most north koreans know that south korea is richard country. minutes ago, most of them have seen a tv series from the south where, you know, and you thought, what can they do with the bible? any resistance is punishable by death, would you consolidate?

prefer to remain silent. it can be so. so the rigid to maintain itself image knowles, korea as gold itself off from foreign influence. the population is almost entirely sealed off from the outside world. then or limited to travel, or use the internet, the toilet to come in. and to put in those are that were in the can get writes off the mobile phones were introduced to you most possible to use a phone network across the north korea. but on my lunch or dinner on that network of people, quick download south korean videos or american films on the cell phones the light from one day to the next correspond deal thoughts. he's realized what was happening kind of, oh, and they created their own closed internet system to put it up to continue it. cutting pundits are towing. well, jim jones,

you knew his way around computers, who knew it was the technology of the future. cool. you limit suggestions, he understood the computer and communication technology, it could spell the collapse of his regime or so. so. so you so isolated the country from the international community or the red fan to the internet in north korea so well, and that's still true today. kind of internships 1st interpretation of typically i can get kind of when it comes to the comparison with the size of the 3 of those that i have the vantage point of coming from the farmer east germany, it until 1990. i lived in east germany from we have television from the west radio from the west on a daily basis. and we had a reference point to meet comparison invest, building telephone, not yet visitors in the west coast of phone calls. this is the information that north koreans have a safe career is nothing like that. overall, they might have watched a soap opera and we've heard a rumor about this, but they don't have that daily. and i'll be too much new. i think that even with better access to information, most north koreans still have next,

a new idea of what's actually happening in south korea, forced to them deformed bus. i conditions equally up us here. in full 2020 the came regime passed the reactionary storage and culture denunciation role violations that the law punishable by public execution or internment. in a labor camp the regime, the intensified repression, loss or success. the number of people who attempted to flee the country dwindled the monitoring. but don't mind going to set up when you read north korea newspapers. that's hopefully any news about what's happening on the other side of the florida. now mind page 6 of the road on seeing the newspaper used to include news or south korea, you some that ended in 2020 and then how long ago the north koreans recall the neighbors in the south items korean. so richard, the,

now we're going to and that's why the north camino authorities keep a tight rein on information about south korea clinton to present an offer me an identity. you're going to look at the jefferson for . ready for the 26000000 residents of north korea, every aspect of life is strictly regulated. even the children are indoctrinated. the from the very start, they learn the stories about the great leaders and the power also came to interstate as difficult to get through to get some boarding druggie and preschool children learned,

but they came family roles. the country idea of us knew that critical. i to addressing the kind of every morning school children increase the portraits of kim jong you sent to me the so what you saw and go to the 2nd because he said this kind of brainwashing is on the present from early childhood. and you don't till death or your eyes of a po. we're the guys, it's own savannah case. are you a typical the school children between 6 and 15, a members of the korean childrens union? a political organization with ties to the welters bodies on important public days. 3rd graders across the country take part in initiations that room and is the

both boys and girls. with the red scarf of the young pioneers, they agreed to find none less than king. jump on himself to the north koreans. this is the most important day of that childhood. the at 17 most north korean boys voluntarily enlist in the military as a demonstration of their loyalty to the states. the moultrie and men generally says to 80 is the longest mandatory military service in

the weld, the find a time to join the military. the young soldiers are usually fully indoctrinated. that is, that he died to propaganda videos to hone the will to find the, the the

where the internet, north korea isn't economically weak country with a small population commute to local parts of south korea and united states have long underestimate of the country and still claimed that the only thing north korea has, or nuclear weapons caught on of what north koreans are bred to be very tough to your con. they are incredibly determined and have a strong instinct for survival. you under to yeah. so even though a new ton does have, plus, they've grown up in a diagnostic system completely isolated from the outside world and, and those are the kind of cool they're mentality, is very simple and direct. you know, you can do, you call, they're very loyal to their country. them everything they do is a matter of life and death. toyota. oh, wait. oh, i didn't deal with them when you decided to do that. and the people of north korea support the regime north korea's nuclear program takes the lion's share of the

country's results is but in the regimes propaganda, it's a necessary sacrifice. peggy doesn't need it. it has a career. it's a 1993. i joined the north korean or the to the home address. that's when i learned the phrase nuclear weapons. it's not the new will. they told us that the american invaders wanted to conquer our beautiful country and attack us with strange biological weapons. 3 weeks from main street and you were told us to go to protect ourselves. we needed a nuclear weapon to work for you. you don't get to go to chip to church. i don't want

you to test to miss on, which is a sign of write it in the media and all parts of the country's national identity. if we sound reporting about missile launches and increase military exercises, the ideology would collapse. it's a constant form of brain washing to ensure that the people remain submissive or ensuring that no one in the country would dan to question the regimes. power is a political strategy and a life insurance policy against the rest of the wells, the palmed, with a compulsory loyalty of its own people like him, dentist, he is determined to keep the rest of the world, but arm's length, the

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