in the coming days will end it there up next one family has ruled north korea for decades. how has the king dynasty affected world politics find out on talk? so that's next. the name is the calls back said wow, thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold bad. a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it's loud. you guys would have being nosy bay, like good everyone to king, to check out the award winning called called the called back 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 mandatory parades and rocket launches. even though she's believe to be only 11 or 12 years old. the will she take over the helm of the 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, there's 2020 to just 3 months off to announcing it's fast case of cove. at 19 north korea declared the pandemic was as a comrade, kim, jo, john, vice president of the central committee of the workers party of korea to do comrade fits in the no, no, no, just review the 7 days of battle against the pandemic sheep. and the last 9 to one

days i witnessed many dramatic situations and was hoping to get him to substitute on that or this was the 1st be challenge by came from one's youngest sister came jo joan on north korea and television when she spoke about her brother's recovery from cove it many in the audience when you wanna listen, lindsey hello, soon as i didn't do any also send you the total time she will give you a piece or she'll those with terrible moments when i was unable to help. ah, great need to put on want to do more session and most of we posted, you have to confront the crisis alone, missing a times distraught and despairing, which is awesome going through. these are so some of the or tuesday let him, jo joan is deputy director of the propaganda administrative. not a pop to her brother. she's widely regarded as the countries number to leader. since 1948, 3 generations of the came family of rule, the democratic people's republic up north korea, without absolute power,

good deals to meet on the economy under the, to the north korea doesn't have a monica and you'll get a so it doesn't have a royal family quote to me instead, they trace the lineage pack, you're what they call the mount pack tubes up line. you go to look at a symbolism don't within the kind of more than one video, then that's when you're now act is a place of pilgrimage. football team members in north koreans cover 2 new so many of you so much in such similar to stuff. it's revered as the place where kim il

sung, stand with it, and that the resistance against japanese occupation is also regarded as the birthplace of kimmy. john hill. you'll get a, someone just to lift this problem and go to the question you saw here when you see the power meals. so i'm kim dunghill things we're going to say create now as is this mountain, it's similar to what leslie had a means to christians. the founding miss help secure the kim families hold on power, which is not quite as secure as it would be under a month case. the domestic dictatorship had to create its own cult of personality and already the also to truly to include those who say no,

it's also needed to, to the, to the new to me. it's one of 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 deep in motion. whenever i climbed mount factor, i think of camry jimmy, don't you to mount back to it as best placed on the trailing whately and richard his courage. mount better is jim junior's mountain. at the same time, s being jim in a sense 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 is an extension of the dentist that has rolled the country for a while about half a century on your to do this. all the tennessee began with came also doing 1948 became the leader and founding father of north korea. in the 19 sixty's, a call to personality

a match 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 human history has ever produced. the greatest a man ways to boost in all the kim jong il died in 2011. his youngest son, 27 year old, came joan own, 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, you know, tutors and acquisition off. he was very young, senior with the internet society which seen yours who was extremely important. lots of to that was a problem for him. the 1st is guns at the others. also glad you to tier to counter right at that by dressing very conservatively. um for that we try to model himself and his grandfather in appearance i, 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 measure, nobody knew him. so suddenly he pay it. he looked a lot like email. so audrey not even last, who is baffled, is that a candidate, though? that's every public, a parent, kim jong. i 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 we don't to go with you in a demonstration of power. kim jones on dismissed a number of functionaries. 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 cosmopolitan st gear who understand the international community. maybe he would better relations with the world. we were wrong. it turns out kim jung on is the most aggressive of the 3 kids, came jump on, installed his closest confidence at the center of power. 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 obesity dog 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 role to cope one, to cut off. so the party is based on the ideology of kim il sung, and kim jones is on that 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 and kind of

time to go from both of the parties, statute clearly outbreaks. the constitution of the songs. anyone 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 you go to so more than go through a package of all, i mean that's how the north korean system works kind of in a coolant year. so across the similar to him, i don't wanna waste the north koreans as part of the regime that owes its allegiance to the kim tennessee on the last 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 on this network of mutual surveillance is intended to maintain control over the population and preserve an image of national pride and contentment the the task they create unit to 5 families monitor each of a ship set the above task. we have him in the unit of 60 families, the immune cause a mandatory piece edited 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, just login and see if there's any kind of look in the system of surveillance was created 75 years ago, which attempted to vote into a true system, entire arguments all connecting, 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 out. we, we don't use it. 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, which is a, you'll be just saw telescope. a son is shot for a crime against the fatherland. his parents, siblings, and even fellow students can be punished and discriminated against, relieving about the tool or button you're not. i mean, okay, so what does that?

i'm going to give them, you know, anyone who would be prepared to sacrifice their own life or freedom and democracy really thinks twice before doing anything solved or 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 legal. you'll 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 a ton about them. you know, as soon as anyone is seen as a threat to execute a new but on congress sees without an investigation on a trial or a judge. yeah. i don't know that about like

a yes or statement you that's why came john own was able to order the execution of his uncle with a strong 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. we men in front of us surveillance camera mobilized us because the of the 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 camps. i really 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. his statistics, like these cars made knows korea one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world, [000:00:00;00] the, the oldest 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 be it's normal? isn't there something like that in north korea because

the they didn't understand toward complaint or, and it every woman that we asked, they were like 60 women. they didn't understand the work, the words complained and so we had to really explain that mean different boards. was 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 core tests. so for them complained goes only one way the government can punish or to somehow criticize for not fulfilling certain duties that were they had such as bringing enough coal tests, 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 ready ready korean capital kiln yang is home to about 3000000 people. ready the city lights on the tab on the 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 through some palace of the sun. the official military parades are held in its full cost that you che,

tower lies on the other side of the river. j is the official ideology of the north korean regime and means and we'll talk a whole self reliance is unofficially represents the cult of personality. surrounding that came tennessee, which is also called key 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. 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 big 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 up to the jim joseph from gift over pontoon,

restarted his 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 jones on himself. the more people also call nowadays on sundays the traffic is bulky on yang, on usually heavy small and so of individual ality all taking hold in closing and fashion new buildings sprouting up oil changes intended to signal normality and modernity to the

outside. well it's 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 thought i saw of people today have more options when it comes to consumption. swift and guns and that includes things like losing moods, transportation near long uh the country has modernized long parts. 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 above the rest of the country here, but not respecting the rest. as long as not. i've travelled across north korea and seen that things have improved everywhere for the 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 lead to maintain political stability. and just at some push to lead the fee of

a police officer stuff or do paid like i mean and cargo to enjoy to explain a survey of north korean to flip the country that you don't want to dump continued digital. that shows that i clearly prefer control home to his fault and that it can go into cooking people. that can you too much, but i feel more of a connection to him. this time i can see that he improve this time of life. since a huge amount of years, so they're making john hill, the only kid about the military, 130 to i'll jump well as liver lies to promote to the market it to guide you lot of sites and get them to. so that's why they pay more hope when they have to jo and when you're in seller, cuz i'm on the printer so. so for some of this, all i'm assuming duty 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, but news concepts and describes the opening of factories and buildings and cutting symbols any time the city's new bosses also get the fashion of attention you. when you came, jo moon 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 quote, he pointed to that goes with the a 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

little talk again the just 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 land greater credibility to the programming and even the country is most famous and cuz it 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 a walk. as 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 studies show and digital has yet to me. it was the we will fight against the enemy. tell, 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 whom you feel free 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 for her 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. you told me to get sent in all night. the told me that 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 a video guys, you go to tighten and then they go to menu. and so you've had to go to all of the press in north korea, serves a special purpose, could be the media professionals proudly call themselves the trumpeters of the revolution to know me, put you all. how cool?

good. i made sure 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, acumen, 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 can show that the message that they're trying to convey is that kim jones, north korea was getting stronger and stronger. yeah, typically it's

a powerful could and well control countries of continuing to develop i'm interested in that a so typically that would impact on the mobile device no, to know some over time dynasties lose their legitimacy tangent. 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. jim jones, and this is under a lot of pressure to find a new basis for his power to come some help on this window to tell him what conditions are your me see while you were to we are to most the input. so despite the strict regime north korea's and 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 sound screen activists regularly send helium balloons across the border, along with pamphlets. the balloons sometimes carries us be stakes with western entertainments. the countries didn't know who we 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, this was all the region to maintain itself. image knowles, korea as gold itself, off from foreign influence, the population is almost entirely sealed off from the outside world. they don't 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 korean. but on my, what's for 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 course finds your thoughts. he's realized what was happening kind of hope. and they created their own closed internet system to

put it up to continue it. cutting pundits are towing. what else can you do me to go? computers definitive jim jones can do his way around the computer. so if i 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 he so isolated the country from the international community or the rent fan to the internet in north korea so well, and that's still true today. kind of internships precedent for connection with zip code. we are in good condition when it comes to the comparison with the size of the 3 of those that i have the vantage point of coming from the former east, germany in the day 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. doesn't 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 eye conditions equally up a see. and 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 of success, the number of people who attempted to flee the country, dwindled. monitoring, but don't mind going to set up. when you read north korea, newspapers, there's hardly any news about what's happening on the other side of the florida. now mind age 6 up the road on send the newspaper. use 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 korean or thirty's, keep a tight rein on information about south korea. clinton to present an offer me an identity. he was totally good at jefferson for 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 of the came dentist. a

difficult to get through to get some boarding journey. he can preschool children learn, but they came family roles. the country idea of us me, the critical i to you guys saying, i don't know, kind of every morning school children read the portraits of kim jong. you sent to me the so what you saw and go to the 2nd because he said it's kind of brainwashing is on the present from early childhood and you know, until definitely 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 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. then came 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

will still be in men generally says to 80 is the longest mandatory military service in the well the by the 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, could be total part 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. so your con, they're incredibly determined and have a strong instinct for survival. you under to yeah, so even when you turn on the 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 to no, no, no. well, we'll catch up with them when you decide 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, you were told us to know to protect ourselves. we needed nuclear weapons. you know, i work for you. you don't get to the chip to church. i don't

want you to test to miss on, which is all set up right 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,

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