How the Kim's Survive by Gordon Chang
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a destitute and reviled
state, yet it endures. Despite periodic foreign predictions of imminent
collapse, the Kim family regime manages to carry on from one year to the
next.
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| North Korean hunting for left over rice. |
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How can the world’s worst government continue to exist for more than
six decades? The standard explanation has been that its rulers, three
generations of the Kim family, have been able to wall off their society.
As a result of the isolation, Kim Il Sung, who founded the miserable
state, was then able to convince his subjects that he had mystical
powers.
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