Tiananmen Square, their treatment of the Falun Gong, their willingness to displace tens of
thousands of their own people just to pave over entire forests and farmlands and erect ghost cities, their
organ-harvesting markets, their habit of
cooking and eating animals while they're still
fucking alive, or
leaving wounded children in the fucking road. China has
long-since proven that it's willing and able to do some
atrocious bullshit.
By a
very large margin China also did the bulk of the fighting during the Korean War, too. Once the DMZ locked itself down and Kim Il-Sung was wrangled to the top of the totem pole, they had
more than ample time and opportunity to do and build
whatever the Hell they wanted up there, and just like you mentioned:
so did the KPA. So what if the Chinese government and the KPA were using the Kim Dynasty this entire time as a means to
strong arm enemies in the region and as a way to--for all real intents and purposes-- direct hostilities towards countries like Japan and South Korea and even the United States, without ever having to handle the blame.
Just look at the amount of Hennessy
alone that Kim Jong Il was supposedly
ordering all for himself. A
million dollars a year for his own, personal supply of just
one drink? Does anyone
really believe that? How about that
report from 2015--
from China--about how Kim Jong Un fired the chief of his Supreme Guard Command just to appease the Chinese. Why the Hell would Kim fire the leader of his
own bodyguard unit due to the actions of a deserter from a
different unit just to appease the Chinese? How much power does Kim
really have if the Chinese can force him to fire the commander of his own praetorian guard?
How about that
enormous purge he allegedly undertook right after Kim Jong Il passed away? He allegedly had 140 senior military officials executed and another ~200 removed or imprisoned, so he's
clearly more-dangerous and more unhinged than his father or his grandfather, right? So in 2014, why did he start
enacting policies that were essentially little more than just training citizens to prepare for working in a free market? Those policies
worked, too, because in late 2017 one of the high-ranking defectors started talking about the
burgeoning free markets in North Korea. Seriously, check this quote out:
"The free markets are flourishing. As more and more people get used to free and capitalist style markets, the state-owned socialist economic system becomes increasingly forgotten about." Thae added that the country’s welfare system has collapsed, and that "millions of civil servants, army officers and security forces are dependent on bribes and state assets’ embezzlement for their survival.'"
"North Koreans don’t care about state propaganda but increasingly watch illegally imported South Korean movies and dramas, weakening the regime’s hold. These changes […] make it increasingly possible to think about a civilian uprising in North Korea as more and more people gradually become informed about the reality of their living conditions." Thae argued.
"Today, Kim Jong Un thinks that only nuclear weapons and ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) can help him avert the continuing disintegration of the North Korea system."
That last line is just ridiculous because Kim Jong Un was the one who
enacted those policies in the first place! If he's such a psychotic despot who's willing to murder hundreds of members of his own government and is
multiple times worse than his father or his grandfather, why would he have done that, and if he was so power-crazed and unhinged and paranoid, why would he be traveling abroad and going to all these lengths now to broker these peace agreements and policies that
directly threaten his regime, and offer him
nothing in return?
Just look at what happened to his friends and family, too. Every Kim in the dynasty has taken credit for military actions against South Korea or Japan in order to prove to the ruling elite that they could "deliver the goods." Kim Il-Sung attempted to kill the South Korean president in the
Blue House Raid, and Kim Jong Il carried out
way more operations, like the
Battle of Amami-Ōshima or the attack on the
ROKS Cheonan. In all the seven years that this "wild lunatic who is so much worse than his father or grandfather" has been in power though, he's yet to spearhead a single military action or an assassination attempt against foreign dignitaries.
And what happened? His
brother was killed, his
friends were killed, his
uncle was killed, and every time it happened we were told it was an accident or Kim himself had them assassinated.
According to Chinese officials and media outlets. That doesn't sound like some
mafia shit at all, does it? Hell, who's to say those death camps in North Korea aren't flooded full of Chinese dissidents or reporters or law enforcement officials working to threaten the system?
How would
anyone ever know? Can you even imagine what the mafia could have done if it had
fucking death camps in a region that was locked down
that tightly, and that they could blame on
someone else? That would be the
perfect way to get rid of anyone who ever caused any problems, and nobody would ever blame it on you, and it wouldn't even be tallied up as a murder. It'd just be another missing persons report in a country with
1.3 billion people.
