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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 is 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

news, [000:00:00;00] the channels is 2022 just 3 months after announcing its fast case of cov, at 19 north korea. declan. 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 talk to you on that or this was the 1st be challenge by 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, 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 be put on. want to do more session and most of we posted you have to confront the crisis alone who missing a times distraught and despairing, which is also going to do is this of 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 me to the county under the to the stairs or what are you talking about? controls. korea doesn't have a monica and you'll get us with doesn't have a royal family quote to me. instead, me like trace the lineage pack your what my call the mount pack tubes up line. you go to look at a symbolism. don't wait in the country more than one video, then that's when you're now back. it's a place of pilgrimage,

football team members or north koreans covered to so many of you saw. but in such similar stuff, gets 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 let this go to the question you sonya fornia. she's due to the power of meals. so and kim, dunghill things were going to the site as is this mountain? it's similar to what definitely hadn't made is the christians getting this founding miss help secure the kim family's 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 know truly to include those who say no, it's also needed to, to the, to the you too many kids on 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 secret revolutionary mountain jim. it was 77 in motion. whenever i climbed mount factor, i think of camry jimmy jim 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 get

a sense of mountain the owners. the entire game families stand 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 kim jones own and his sister just came, jo jones is an extension of the dentist date 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 cult personality, a match which led to dictate to an almost god like status to this day came l. so it's still regarded as supposed to bring him added tunnel leader of north korea. a good. the in 1994, his son, kim jong il assumed power. according to legend, he was born on mt peck to and was possessed of a powerful intellect and accomplishments.

the camry, jim juno is an outstanding philosopher, statesman, and leader with most of the tile talents and capabilities is not only the greatest idle load score and see a red, the genius of the present time is the greatest man schumann history has ever produced. the greatest a man we're supposed 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 seniors who was extremely important, lots of to that was a problem for him versus guns with others. all took like you to tier to counter right at that by dressing very conservatively. um for the we try to model himself and his grandfather in appearance, you know, as a young man, that length with some authority to my mind. i guess they are the, the charleston that i met on that a full measure. nobody knew him. so suddenly he pay it. he looked a lot like email,

so audrey not even lost completely stopped. or is that a candidate though? that's every public, a parent doing 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 in just a minute to get down to go with you in a demonstration of power came jones on dismissed a number of functionaries. ready 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 cosmopolitan st gear who understand the international community. maybe he wanted 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, his sister would be his successor. ensuring that the kim family 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 ongoing to kind of the 2nd level is the parties that you choose. they state that the party leadership is hereditary, and each generation comes from the king family, tiny little coat one to cut off. so the party is based on the ideology of kim il sung,

and kim jones is 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, 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 year. didn't you say so if you go to so more than go through a patch job? well, i mean that's how the north korean system works is kind of in a coolant unit. so across the similar to and i don't reach 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 the population and preserve an image of national pride and contentment the the task they create units of 5 families, monitoring a java should set the above that we have him in the unit of 60 families in pens

cause a mandatory piece, david, every admin, bottom as a unit tab, you should always know what's happening in every household. most people in the comes in and that your system will especially limited to just and system you can handle this system of surveillance was creating 75 years ago, which attempted to bolt into a true system, entire arguments all 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 has 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 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? 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. solve 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. we call 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 a ton of video and as soon as anyone is seen as

a threat to execute a new bit on congress sees without an investigation on a trial or a judge. you get out a lot of it about like to us just image. that's why came on own was able to order the execution of his uncle. john. sounds tactful and his half brother to his half brother kim jong, was murdered in 2017 at the airport in malaysia choosing for the eyes of the entire world. we met in front of a surveillance camera mobilized 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 are able to escape conditions in the camps re, i think most of the prisoners die of torture or hunger well as a result of forced labor. it's estimated that between

100200000 opponents of the regime are currently incarcerated. simons have also kills millions of north koreans most during the 19 ages and 1990 is. statistics like these cars made north korea one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world, the, the old of all have under the tunnel. 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. no, 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's something like that in north korea.

the they didn't understand award complaint. and every woman dot, we asked the word 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't. you cannot complain that women's union 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 where they had such as bringing enough quotas, 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 nice 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 set you regression. 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. the jew jay towel lies on the other side of the river to j is the official ideology of the north korean regime and means we will talk to you all self reliance is unofficially represents the cult of personality. surrounding that came tennessee, which is also called humanism. in recent years beyond gang has been transforming itself public transportation, which includes subways, bosses and street cars 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 home that's for come to mind me on the selection when it comes to try should have nuclear weapons and dig a foot tons. he also invested a sizable portion of the military bunch employment and the private sector being unprepared to expand the like manufacturing sex. time to come go to the gym. joe

issues with us from gift to reply to your service life in the capital has also changed. ready to city look small west and not 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 out off emitted which have to be personally approved by came jones on himself . the more people also call nowadays on sundays traffic is bulky on yang, on usually heavy small hints of individuality, all taking hold in clothing and fashion. new buildings are sprouting up,

oil changes intended to signal normality and modernity to the outside. well, it's kind of main item in our phones aren't dis, disabled and not based on my own. observe ations. i can see that over the past 30 years and from place in north korea has improved significantly. and usually even for ordinary people festival is of course the baseline was very low. the things have definitely improve medicine thought i'm fall off the people to day have more options when it comes to consumption. swift and guns on that includes things like losing moods, transportation near long uh the country has modernize the lawn parts, though it is important to know the p on young 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 who do not respect. and the nice design does not. i've travelled across north korea and seem that things have improved everywhere for the p on yang stand out, because that's with the elite live is on this. and of course the leadership needs the support of

a lead to maintain political stability. and just at some 1st you need to feel hopefully this you're starting to paid. like, i mean i'm a product, i'm just putting in a survey of north korean to fret, the country. it's enjoying the dump continued digital. that shows that i clearly prefer control home to his fault and that it can go into cooking people. that can be done once, but i feel more of a connection to him. this time i can see that he improve the stands of life. uh, to do you mind yourself, john hill, the only kid about the military. when putty care, i'll jump well as liver lies to promote to the market, it will guide you to get them to. so that's why they've pinball hope on they have to jo into when you're in seller, cuz i'm on the printer so. so if i selected, so i'm assuming duty, can you tell me what doesn't, and don't wanna do so question don't mind to dig, i'm gonna support the whole for the, from the, from the deputy on national television. the regimes propaganda machine offers

a steady flow of evidence of programs in the country on every tv channel with news concepts, and describes the opening of factories and buildings and cutting symbols. anytime the city's new bosses also get the fashion of attention. yes, when you came jo moon even made a personal appearance to inspect them. let me pull the camera up to you. if so you can, they're going to be that it wouldn't be nice to meet. you get closer to the noble determination of the policy and it you love. so the people has deals a different reality. quote, he pointed to that goes with the a me cuz she got so little is hand on the north korean media has definitely become more modern hot in and then you communion that wasn't gonna commit you to draw so fast cuts make television shows look much livelier than before,

don't don't know who to talk again. they just because all those together on the, instead of just one tv channel, there are now for you to view as can choose between different shows. which helps land greater credibility to the programming. and even the countries most famous and as being swept off in the winds of change when you cut them. yeah. and choose the kids all to come read. kim jones stood for a commemorative photo with the workers of korean television. this was an, it's a pause and then what's the point that evolved since the 19 seventy's 32, he has presented the country's most important news. torres audio subbing show and digital has you had some need to know that we will fight against the enemy. tell go, you did tell them that you were potentate on everything from nuclear missile tasks, to the meeting between kim jones own and the tv stations. employees 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 only get 7 know each that of a toll on the day you didn't or him. john himself told me there was nothing more valuable than such a loyal welcome. who's been working in the media for 50 years and not i will get the video, but i'm going to kind of so really it's video guys your time in day today go to menu and so you'd have to go to all of the process in north korea serves a special purpose, could be the media professionals,

proudly call themselves the trumpeters of the revolution. to me only put you on 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. speed carlos accumulate, hadn't been an issue. and hopefully, sooner than she can go to pay him, go to him. so tell me that thing, good job it along with the news programs north korean t. v. awesome girl 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 to. that's one of kim duncan's new initiatives. going towards it. it will kill national ceremonies, are a much higher priority now than before. countrymen, they're supposed to make the population proud at the party and the machine consumer . the message that they're trying to convey is that kim jones, north korea,

is getting stronger and stronger. typically it's a powerful and well controlled country that's continuing to develop an interest in in that area. so typically that would impact on the cause of the device. no, to those 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're personally doing and what 7080 years after the war means that legitimacy is fading creek up kim john. and this is under a lot of pressure to find a new basis for his power to come someone up on this window to tell him what you can do to your me see while you were to, we are to mostly put through 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 question is the new leap coming? of course it's as most north koreans know that south korea is richard consummate. you go. 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? preferred to remain silent? taken for this was all the religion to maintain itself. image knowles, korea as gold itself, off from foreign influence, the population is almost entirely sealed off from the outside world. been or limited to travel or use the internet the toilet to come in and to put in the rest of it that were in the can get writes off to mobile phones were introduced. let me put in the most possible to use a phone network across the north korean. but on my lunch or dinner on that network of people, quick download south korean videos or american films on spare cell phones. the light from one day to the next. the correspond, deal, thirties realized what was happening kind of help and they created their own closed

internet system to put it up to continue it. cutting pundits are towing while the computer came junky and knew his way around the computer. so steve, i knew it was the technology of the future. cool. you limit suggestions, he understood the computer and communication technology 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 introduce you a precedent for connection to typically i can get kind of each as 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 and we had television from the west radio from the west on a daily basis. and we had a reference point to meet comparison invest built in to the point not to have visitors in the west coast of phone calls. this is the information that north koreans have. it says create is nothing like that oprah, they might have watched a soap opera and we heard a rumor about this,

but they don't have that daily and little bit 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. most of them definitely the bus i conditions equally up us here. in full 2020 the came regime past the reactionary storage and culture denunciation role violations that the law punishable by public execution or internment in a labor camp. so the regime, the intensified repression, was that a 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 those korean newspapers, there's hardly any news about what's happening on the other side of the florida. now mind age, 6 of the rodents in the newspaper used to include news or south korea. you some

that ended in 2020 and then how long the north koreans recalled the neighbors in the south and dumbs 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 go to look at the jefferson for . ready photo 26000000 residents of north korea. every aspect of life is strictly regulated even the children are indoctrinated. ready from the very start they learn, the story is about the great leaders and the power of the came dentist to

get through to get some blood to enjoy. the con preschool children learn, but they came family rules. the country idea of us knew the critical i to you guys saying, i don't know, kind of every morning school children increase the portraits of kim jong you sent to me the song of what you saw and go to the 2nd. because he said this kind of brain washing is on the present from early childhood and you don't till death or your eyes have a po, well, don't worry about it because it's own bennett case. so you, it's very cool. the all 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 buy none less, then came jump on himself to 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. the site is that he died to propaganda videos to hone the will to find the or

the the victim that north korea is an economically weak country with a small population. it could be a little puzzled south korea and united states have long underestimated the country and still claim 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'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 their mentality is very simple. and direct, you know, you can do, you call, they're very loyal to their country then to them. everything they do is a matter of life and death to no, we'll catch in just

a minute 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. take it on the toner unit. it has a good, it's a 1993. i joined the north korean army tibits home at the rest. that's when i learned the phrase. nuclear weapons is not the new bill. they told us that the american invaders wanted to conquer our beautiful country and attack us with strange biological weapons. 3 weeks of i'm interested in what you told us to know to protect ourselves. we needed nuclear weapons. you know, i work for you. you don't get to and you got a $10.00 trip to

a church. i don't want you to test to miss on, which is a set of write it in the media and all parts of the country's national identity. if we stop 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 data 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 alms lines,

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