NORTH KOREA | A New Leader?

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In November 2022, pictures emerged of Kim Jong-un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea, touring a missile site with his daughter. The pictures made international headlines as this was the first confirmed glimpse of any of his three children. Although it's believed that she is aged nine or ten, Kim Ju-ae has already been identified as a potential successor to her father. If so, she would become the fourth generation of the Kim family to rule the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK. So, just how did this secretive country, often known as the hermit kingdom, effectively become the world's first and only marxist monarchy?
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North Korea has emerged as a pariah state. Having distanced itself from the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, when it built a system built on self-reliance - or Juche as it's known in the official ideology - it has become an increasingly serious threat to international peace and security. As well as sponsoring organised crime, it has also developed a nuclear weapons programme and advanced ballistic missiles. And yet, it has remained firmly in the grip of one family. Having been founded by Kim Il-sung, power then passed to his son, Kim Jong-il, before being passed to his son, the country's current leader, Kim Jong-un. And now there appears to be another generation of leader on the horizon with Kim's daughter, Kim Ju-ae. But things might not be quite so straightforward. There is potentially another Kim waiting in the wings: Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo-Jong. Either way, could we be on course to see North Korea come under the rule of its first female leader - the world's first woman dictator?
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0:00 Introduction and Titles
00:50 Hereditary Leadership and North Korea
02:07 North Korea: Location, Demographics and Economy
02:57 The Emergence of North Korea
04:45 The Korean War, 1950-1953
05:43 Kim Il-sung and the Succession Question
07:44 North Korea under Kim Jong-il, 1994-2011
09:25 North Korea under Kim Jong-un
11:44 Is Kim Ju-ae North Korea’s Next Leader?
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@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

The recent images of Kim Jong-un's daughter, Kim Ju-ae, touring a missile site with her father has raised speculations about the line of succession in this strange and secretive country. But many think that North Korea isn't ready for a female leader. So, do you think this really is North Korea's next leader? And, if so, will she be the one? After all, there is another possible alternative. As ever, I look forward to reading your thoughts and comments below.

@hkchan1339 Год назад

I think North Korea is closer to a theocratic monarchy , given how the leader is viewed in their media. Driving at 4, piloting a plane at 5, inventing all medical cures at 6 etc. Kim is viewed as a demigod there

@RobespierreThePoof Год назад

Is there really anything left in North Korea that could really be called Marxist? Its bad enough that the Soviet Union failed to live up to the promises of the Bolsheviks. North Korea'a attempt at a centralized economy and classless society closely tracked the early Soviet successes and it's later failures - but then compounded these errors by becoming even more authoritarian and less economically functional. There's nothing Marxist in starving the proletariat while a select elite in the capital thrive. And now North Korea relies on exported labor, very dodgy illegal market investments, and other secret capital activities to fund the dictatorship while the regular economy of limited trade with China continues to stagnate. That too has nothing to do with Marxism. If Marx could have been awake for everything that happened ever since 1917, I'm fairly sure he'd be shaking his to head in dismay that no one seems to understand what he wrote. Anyways, i know you know all this. I'm just a bit weary of how certain people (especially right wing propagandists in the US) continue to describe China and North Korea as Marxist just because the party in charge still calls itself "communist."

@Remake5182 Год назад

Do you think what the USSR and US did to Korea was selfish? Both sides only wanted to control

@Todd.B Год назад

@@Remake5182 isn’t politics selfish by nature?

@Remake5182 Год назад

@@Todd.B What both the Soviet union and US did was to divided the Koreans into north and south.

@handsomegeorgianbankrobber3779 Год назад

Technically, North Korea wouldnt be the worlds first Marxist monarchy since Grenada was a Marxist monarchy for a short while in the 1980s.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Haha! And that’s why I love the online world! :-)

@ZenexTheZealous Год назад

North Korea is a Republic... a government is not monarchical simply because it is hereditary just as a government is not republican for not being hereditary (e.g. elective monarchies)

@EdMcF1 Год назад

@@ZenexTheZealous What say do the 'public' in the 'republic' of North Korea have?

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

@Zenex Seriously, going by your other comment, you seem very wound up about this. I’ve taught politics for any decades. (I am a real professor of politics, believe it or not!?) I don’t quite know why you seem so exercised about this. But do take a deep breath and relax. There is some latitude for artistic licence. But there’s also a broader question that we should be asking ourselves. Indeed, I’d love to have a student tackle why we could call it a monarchy. I certainly wouldn’t fail them for using what might, on the surface, seem like an incorrect term, but, at a deeper level, might be rather more apt than we realise! Anyway, have a good and restful weekend.

@TheLocalLt Год назад

Well Grenada was legitimately a Communist regime (and later a Communist military junta) that had a monarchy, which it didn’t abolish during its short tenure. Whereas North Korea is a Communist “monarchy”, in terms of that the leadership is based on hereditary descent from the nearly-mythologized Kim Il-Sung, but doesn’t actually have a monarchy. Interestingly several European states with monarchies still had them during the early stages of Soviet-imposed Communist regimes, but by 1949 I believe all the Communist states in Europe were republics.

@alexjoseph1306 Год назад

The video’s only been out for two minutes but I already know this is going to be a quality Professor Ker-Lindsay production. Never miss one of your videos.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks so much Alex! Really appreciated. Have a great weekend. :-)

@user-lt8cs3yk1n Год назад

Hello Professor, I'm currently a Masters Student in North Korean Studies at Korea University. I'm writing my thesis on a history of North Korean Basketball. As always, the quality of your video is superb, and I thank you for your tireless work on this and other issues. Concerning the nuclear issue, one slight nitpick that I have is that the DPRK really came to international attention in 1994 with their withdrawal from the NPT, starting a cycle of negotiation and escalation that has continued to this day. Also, when considering nuclear capabilities, it is not necessarily the first nuclear test that makes the DPRK a threat, but the deployment capabilities that they have developed in the years since. For example, in Great Britain's case, they made their first nuclear test in 1952, but it was not until 1955, when they gained the capability of using that weapon against the Soviet Union, that it began to have an effect on their foreign policy. In the DPRK's case, I believe that, not the nuclear test in 2006, but the larger-yield nuclear tests in 2016, as well as the Hwasong-15 long-range missile test in 2017, as really what propelled the DPRK from being a somewhat maligned nuisance to being a serious international security threat. Furthermore, the ensuing sanctions after the 2016 and 2017 tests really put a stranglehold on the DPRK's ability to trade internationally, effectively turning them into an economic vassal state of China. Accordingly, Kim Jong Un's recent statements about "nuclear non-negotiation" should not be seen as a new ultimatum; rather, they should be seen as another step in what has been a consistent cycle of sword-rattling and backing down that the DPRK has perfected for generations. The regimes goal is not acceptance from the international community; rather, it is finding new avenues through which they can stay in power and maintain the status quo. Concerning the succession, two factors stand out about the emergence of Kim's daughter. For one, her youth. Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un did not step into the public eye until their twenties, and the DPRK leadership has never revealed such a young family member to the public. Secondly, it is her gender. Kim Jong Un is a leader who is much more comfortable with the idea of women in powerful positions than his father or grandfather. As such, no matter what the speculation might be, the face of the leadership is changing, and with it, the structure of the society. It is impossible to say whether the daughter is the next leader, but I think its' important to consider that there are constant power struggles going on behind the scenes in DPRK politics, and a system of succession is not codified into law. As such, a succession is not guaranteed until a successor both establishes their own power base and secures their position in power. Kim Yo Jong may be capable of that currently, but Kim's daughter clearly has a long way to go.

@eedragonr6293 Год назад

An heir must receive economic and decisions power from an early age, as a teenager already, to learn administration and to gain authority. Whoever will be the heir will need the political, economic and military support of China. It will need diplomatical skills. I can't imagine a woman in power in China. Must be a paradise for misogynists.

@eedragonr6293 Год назад

Impossible not to notice that the "vassal" of China is a military nuclear power whilst the democratic "vassals" are not.

@mirabeaux851 Год назад

This probably would have been better as an e-mail, man lol

@tiredox3788 Год назад

Kind of strange when you think about it because famous Marxist and Communist always talk about how they are against Monarchies. Or any idea that relates to one.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Yes, it really is bizarre how the family has managed to cement its control over the state. But North Korea is bizarre in so many ways!

@MC-yt1uv Год назад

Regardless of a country's idealogy, there will always be people wishing to be the unquestioned ruler. There isn't much difference between the Kim family, the Bourbons, or Orbán. Regardless of the claimed values of a society, there will be those hoping to assume absolute power. Everyone should be vigilant and wary of those in power as there is always an aspirant dictator. Citizens have a duty to be educated and conscious of their government. And we should be especially concerned of those who use fear and hatred to justify the need for their increasing power.

@abuhammad Год назад

In China it's called democratic dictatorship, so the state represents the people and oppresses the people. That means communism is a lie put on the state slavery.

@PerryKobalt Год назад

@@JamesKerLindsay Well Jucheism ideology are the mix of Traditional Korean Monarchy and Marx-Communist

@Alexander-sr7qm Год назад

North Korea is different world.

@BritanniaWild Год назад

You're consistently creating interesting content. Like many of your subscribers, i really enjoy the variety of topics and the effort made to create content that leave me feeling more informed and educated. Apologies for not being able to donate more. Thank you for your work!

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thank you so much Darryl. That is really incredibly kind of you! Really, I appreciate the support enormously. I am just really glad that you like the videos. I do try to keep them varied and interesting. Not always easy. And RU-vid can be a tough audience. But words of encouragement like this make all the difference. Have a really great weekend. And thanks so much once again!

@BritanniaWild Год назад

@@JamesKerLindsay Thank you for the kind reply. Have a great weekend too. 😊

@duduss751 Год назад

Thank you for tipping the prof.i cannot do it myself.i need money for food

@BritanniaWild Год назад

@@duduss751 sorry to hear that my friend, I hope things improve for you.

@gothicgolem2947 Год назад

Love your videos

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thank you! :-)

@VanBurenOfficial Год назад

🗜️🌶️🇬🇮

@folofus4815 Год назад

Howdy Professor, if you have time, would you consider making a video on the situation of the Assyrian people in the Nineveh plains and the diaspora? It’s a very interesting and sad situation

@TheNahidali91 Год назад

I read International Relations at LSE for my undergrad and I’ve only just heard of this guy (love your videos btw). Dr Kirsten and Tardelli were my advisors. We should make a documentary together (my channel is Global Frontier).

@GlobalFrontier Год назад

Me :)

@profesor1992able Год назад

Dear Professor, I have been waiting for the video about North-Korea so long. Thank you very much for another great video. I have a suggestion: in general in the European continent Americas aren’t much covered and discussed. What about reflecting upon once sour Chile-Peru and Chile-Bolivia relationship? It would be extremely interesting to hear your comments on Chile v Peru+ Bolivia war, Bolivian claim of seashore and finally the recent legal case (Bolivia v. Chile) in the ICJ. And of course the nature of the relationship among the mentioned South American states nowadays. Greetings from Yerevan! 🥰

@joshuaguste6883 Год назад

One thing I sincerely appreciate in your videos is bringing to light the issues of other countries and how they shape foreign diplomacy and policy. It shows the ripple effects of nations actions and how we are living in their consequences.

@makeracistsafraidagain7608 Год назад

Hi Professor James, this is a very interesting video.. well done…

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks so much. I’d wanted to do a video on Korea for ages. But this just seemed such an interesting angle.

@makeracistsafraidagain7608 Год назад

@@JamesKerLindsay indeed it’s a interesting angle

@peterkops6431 Год назад

Thanks Professor. Excellent work as usual 👍🏻👍🏻

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks so much Peter. Always appreciated! :-)

@fedmcglowie7240 Год назад

Imagine if Korea never reunifies and the Kim cult of personality just transforms into more of an actual religion where they become yet another line of oriental God-kings.

@abrarbinnoman6112 Год назад

They are kinda like gods to the people in North Korea.

@ianwoods5656 Год назад

I suspect the sister is a serious prospect for leadership. She seems very capable and SCAREY.

@0816M3RC Год назад

Yes she definitely needs to be slapped down.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks Ian. I agree. The sister seems to be the one to watch. But it is a tough dilemma. If she is too ambitious, and represents a serious challenge, then one would imagine she may have to be forced out. But the daughter clearly isn’t ready to take over - even in a bizarre place like North Korea. But the sister will know that if the daughter doesn’t take over, and she can’t, then that will probably be the end of the Kim family, possibly quite literally. This succession matters, for all of them. It is fascinating.

@blackpowderuser373 Год назад

North Korea being militaristic, fanaticism to the leader, and a familial succession makes them more like Imperial Japan in my view.

@eedragonr6293 Год назад

"classless"

@timkelehan5147 Год назад

Thank you for a fascinating look at N Korea. I feel like I learn so much from your videos!

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks so much Tim. I really love making them. A lot of work. But I learn so much too. Have a great weekend.

@lemokemo5752 Год назад

Constitutional legal experts were invited from Cambodia to North Korea. The Kims flirtaded with the idea of a Constitutional monarchy. Communism and Marxism is almost never studied nor propagated in public in North Korea. It is always Juche, revolutionary spirit, Korea and a vague "socialist system". The vocabulary deviates so much from traditional marxist-leninist one party states. I recommend Andrei Lankov and Remco Breuker. They argue that North Korea stopped being a socialist planned economy in the 1980s, the PDS collapsed and that 80% of most people's income are from the semi-legal private sphere. As they and many have brought up: the state business are often run as private companies. The political structure is feudal with even a class system mirroring nobility (Songbun). However state planning is still essential to keep the hierarchy. If they do Chinese reforms the population would demand South Korean integration and the elites fear they will be doomed (killed, jailed).

@Asamations Год назад

Another excellent video James! I have always found North Korea fascinating and one day wish to travel to the Hermit Kingdom and shoot a vlog there. Anyways, keep up the great work!

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks so much Asa. I know what you mean. It would be fascinating to go. But I think I’ve probably ruined my chances now. 😀

@ShubhamMishrabro Год назад

Professor. Venezuela president and opposition had a treaty signed for future election which led to us easing some sanction. A follow up video of your last Venezuela would be great

@licmir3663 Год назад

I’d love to see a reunited Korea as a constitutional parliamentary monarchy, with the restoration of the old royal family. It’s a pity that this seems impossible

@emizerri Год назад

I don't find this a pity. I don't feel that any country needs a monarchy. The people should have the ability to have control over the election of their head of state and their removal. Monarchies are naturally exclusive and hierarchical, based on preserving a ruling class structure and behind door legislative manipulation. This even happens in the UK, where the monarch oversees bills through the Privy Council.

@HCUhardcoreUnited Год назад

Any nation with a monarchy whether it be constitutional or not can not be truly free, in practice and in theory.

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Год назад

What royal family?

@licmir3663 Год назад

@@emizerri your kind of thought is why the US wasted 20 years in Afghanistan. It is precisely your inability to understand other people’s culture the reason to why nations are often highly unstable.

@FOLIPE Год назад

@@licmir3663 huh? South Korea isn't a monarchy either, why should it become one? Also, to some level universal levels do exist and if we are all commenting on a foreign nation its natural we'll project our values on them, even if we accept they will follow their own ways (which to Korea seems to be republicanism)

@powasjington4262 Год назад

So happy to see her take the helm. Congratulations 🎉 to Kim family.

@japteshwarsingh5866 Год назад

Great video as always.Hey will you be making a video on protests in china?

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks. I’ll see. I tend to find that videos covering issues getting a lot of attention elsewhere don’t tend to do well. Also, it’s extremely fluid. I will certainly keep an eye on it.

@m.j.n.808 Год назад

Hello, Professor. I am currently am a highschool exchange student from the United States(with a Cuban-American background) currently studying in Korea. It has been fascinating to see the comparisons between the financial situation of both Koreas to Cuban-Americans in South Florida and mainland Cuba. This isn't related to the subject of the video other than it being somewhat Korean related but it is just something I have noticed recently while living here

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks so much. It must be absolutely fascinating to spend some time over there. I hope you are enjoying it. I went to Cuba a few years ago. It was so interesting to see. Obviously, there is a lot of poverty, but it was actually rather open to tourists (surprising numbers of Canadians and Italians) and I never felt a problem wandering around. Interestingly, there were some Cuban Americans there, and they made no attempt to hide it. Many walked around in Stars and Stripes t-shirts or swimsuits!

@rpgbb Год назад

Singapore is also a monarchy, it’s a family business controlled by the Lee family. Supposedly they have “elections”. The electoral commission responds to the prime minister, changing the electoral districts every election. The opposition got 40% of the votes but got only two observation seats without voting rights out of the 100 MP seats. Two years ago there was an argument between PM Lee’s brother and sister because he wants to promote his son as the next leader. Strangely the West recognises this illegitimate government because Singapore is a major “financial” centre, ie money laundry

@avatardele Год назад

I don't think North Korea is a 'communist' country anymore,it seem's there's no reference to the communist ideology in its present constitution. I think its previous adherence to 'communism' was rather cynical,probably meant to humour the soviets. What we are quite likely seeing in North Korea today is a farcical drama begun by Kim il Sung,who may have even been an imposter. The real Kim il Sung,alleged to have been a Korean 'freedom fighter',may have died while imprisoned by the Japanese in the 1930's.

@Dom59410 Год назад

The definition of communism is very nebulous, I don't think anybody can properly define it!

@RedBird7 Год назад

North korea is a communist state

@Dave102693 Год назад

I think he was a plant by the Soviets

@mojewjewjew4420 Год назад

@@Dom59410 iT wAsNt ReAl CoMmUnIsM!!!

@nickmacarius3012 Год назад

I believe that a "Marxist Monarchy" is an oxímoron 😂

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

It certainly should be. But when dealing with North Korea, a truly bizarre state, anything seems to go!

@nickmacarius3012 Год назад

@@JamesKerLindsay Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь - вокруг монархии!

@mojewjewjew4420 Год назад

@@nickmacarius3012 Monarcho Bolshevism time. Fun fact Mladarossi actually wanted this for Russia, not in the north korean style obviously.

@MasaKoshi Год назад

Great video! As a Japanese, I need to say that this division between North and South Korea is because of Japanese annexation. When I was a student in Japan, a professor from South Korea often told students that Japanese biggest sin was that as a result, Japan created a power vacuum. That's what I remembered. Apart from that, I am wondering if there was any chance for other former-socialist states to establish a Marxist monarchy. Thank you.

@yo2trader539 Год назад

History of Korean peninsula wasn't always united. And so-called united regimes didn't always control the entire peninsula. It's easy to blame the Russians, Chinese, Americans, or Japanese but in reality nobody forced Koreans to favor Communism or Capitalism.

@user-nf8en2oy3i Год назад

@@yo2trader539This is not true. The U.S. and Soviet Union should have defeated Japan and handed over the entire Korean Peninsula to Koreans. They didn't.

@BuenoSuertes Год назад

Given how the palace intrigue in Pyongyang today resembles the drama in period pieces from South Korean TV and movies, you have to wonder how much of DPRK politics is a continuation of kinship and power dynamics from pre-colonial Korean society. Although such analysis would tend to be a bit too speculative. Another hereditary republic in Asia that's worth mentioning is Singapore. Although the ruling party has strenuously denied it, casual observers would all say that the succession from Lee Kuan Yew to Lee Hsien Loong was carefully planned. Occasional outbursts recently have revealed bad blood running between the Prime Minister and his siblings, a feud which strongly suggests that there is an ongoing battle for succession in the third generation of Lees.

@Todd.B Год назад

If his health is really that bad, how much longer do they think he's going to live to be grooming a 10 yr old to take over, where's the eldest child, why not them? Thx Prof. fascinating stuff but I still have more questions than answers. Have a great weekend

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks. And that’s North Korea in a nutshell! :-) Always more questions than answers. The sister seems to be the one to watch. But there’s also been suggestions that the reason Kim Jong-un wheeled out his daughter is to keep his sister in check. And we don’t know about the elder child, a son apparently. Maybe there’s an issue there. Have a great weekend too!

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Год назад

Might as well ask Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il why didn't they chose their firstborns to be their successors...

@waynejohnson1786 Год назад

If the info we have is correct then his oldest kid is only 12 And typically hereditary regimes don’t choose the first born child, they choose the most qualified child. Kim isn’t his fathers oldest child.

@waynejohnson1786 Год назад

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Wasn’t Kim Jung Il the oldest child of Kim Il Sung?

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Год назад

@@waynejohnson1786 No, he's actually the youngest. You're thinking of Kim Jong-Nam who died nearly 3 years ago. Funny thing is that Kim Il Sung isn't the oldest child in his family... if we believe the story he murdered his eldest brother by framing his swimming pool death as an accident...

@aheroicdose Год назад

To differentiate noun from verb, processes is pronounced with a long e.

@chickenbuttermasala8458 Год назад

Juche philosophy is really wild Superb video as usual

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks so much. Yes, I’d love to do more on Juche. There’s so much bonkers about the whole ideology. Sadly, it’s had disastrous internal results, and very worrying international effects.

@tosoledo Год назад

Will you make a video about the situation in Haiti?

@scs216 Год назад

If she ever rules North Korea, maybe she’ll turn all of her people into anime characters and our military could come home.

@eedragonr6293 Год назад

Why doesn't South Korea have nukes?

@joeshmoe8345 Год назад

Great thanks

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thank you!

@TheLocalLt Год назад

Thanks as always for the video Dr. Ker Lindsay! Interesting topic as ever, I get the feeling that the issue of Kim Jong-Un’s succession won’t matter for a while, as long as the status quo remains in Beijing (but that’s a topic for another day). Kim is not exactly in good shape but it’s still hard to envision him dying anytime soon. The wild card as always would be a war or a military coup or something else totally unexpected. Due to the northern frontier with the PRC, and the artillery pointed at Seoul, it seems like unfortunately any change in the direction of the DPRK will have to come from within. In any case a well-timed video with the Pyongyang’s recent missile launches. Thanks as always professor!

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks a lot LocalLt. I originally planned to look at the missile launches, but then thought that the issue of succession might be a better way to tell the story of North Korea and why it is such a problem. Korea had been an issue I had wanted to tackle for ages.

@emilhuseynov6121 Год назад

Thank you for the video. I also want to thank you for your recent video about the organization of Turkic states. As an Azerbaijani I have always been frustrated how overlook we as a state are compared to our much smaller and weaker neighbors of Georgia and Armenia who always get the spot during discussions about the South Caucasus.

@pansepot1490 Год назад

Don’t complain too much. Ukraine was overlooked as well and now it is at the center of world attention. I certainly don’t envy them.

@54032Zepol Год назад

No no no my brother in christ north Korea is a democratic republic it says so in the name

@tristan_ryan Год назад

Another brilliant video from the brilliant professor himself. I watch just about everything you put out. An informed look indeed! Can hardly wait for the next one. North Korea really is a baffling state whose regime breaks many of the normal rules we'd expect a regime to follow in order to secure their power. It's a wonder that they've made it this far. I can't tell what will be the eventual fate of the regime or who will be Kim Jong-un's successor.

@dans7497 Год назад

Excellent video, I think this is a chance to talk about South Korea's past as a military dictatorship and it's position alongside the US against the crescent power of China in the region. Greetings from 🇪🇸

@gamesmore6583 Год назад

I understand that Kim Jong-un has 3 children born 2010, 2013, 2017. I would think that this is the daughter born in 2010 based on the child's size and the fact it would seem more logical to show a 12 year old for such an event instead of a 9 or 10 year old. Kim Ju-ae was born in 2013 (or late 2012). My source for this is the well known intelligence expert Dennis Rodman. If Kim has a son , he is almost certainly the child born in 2017.

@XER0GRAVITY Год назад

It seems early to be hinting at a successor. Kim is in his late 30s and I can easily see him staying in power for at least another 10 or 20 years. It’s unclear what the future looks like for North Korea, we are just going to have to wait and see.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks. I would usually agree. But there have been persistent rumours about his health. He was very ill earlier this year with Covid. That may have also added to things. Normally, his relative youth makes it premature. But maybe there is more going on here. It’s certainly interesting that he ‘unveiled’ his daughter at this stage. It was far earlier than he or his father were brought to public attention.

@roddychristodoulou9111 Год назад

As with all dictatorships they have a sell by date and I'm afraid NK is close to its . If there ever was a free vote in NK the vast majority would vote for change towards freedom and democracy . People are just fed up with poverty and being far behind SK , in fact America , SK , and Japan have pledged major investments in NK if it were ever to open up . This would transform the country no end , but the fact that this is just not on the cards is an indication of how insular and fearful the hiearchy of NK are .

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks Roddy. I would agree. I didn't really have time to go into it, but this actually raises some fascinating questions that I might try to come back to at a later stage. The regime now seems to be at a real point of danger. The daughter is clearly too young. And the sister has ambitions. But is North Korea ready for a woman leader, even if she is a Kim? Many comment on how patriarchal it is. But if the family doesn't continue, then one has to wonder whether they will survive if out of power. The issue could well be existential for the family. And infighting may actually weaken them all. In other words, they may need to get this clearly sorted out, and sooner rather than later.

@AdmiraHax Год назад

You seem to underestimate the power of indoctrination.

@eedragonr6293 Год назад

There are no poor democratic countries?

@eedragonr6293 Год назад

Of course they may do the same with China and arrive at the same conflict. Give some manufacturers back

@pantao4629 Год назад

Can you make a video on Peru?

@TPM330 Год назад

Provide sources or citations and g sources for videos? Whether they’re a primary or secondary source, don’t have to if you don’t want to but it’d be helpful

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks. I do. All those images of documents, news reports, think tank reports and official sites I use on screen are the sources. (Think of them as video footnotes.) I also provide some useful links in the description.

@TPM330 Год назад

@@JamesKerLindsay thank you!

@paraniidnyc Год назад

One correction: Jong-Nam was Jong-Il's oldest son not Il-Sung's.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks. Did I say Kim Il-sung? Sorry. You are absolutely right. A case of Kim family overload by that stage!

@paraniidnyc Год назад

@@JamesKerLindsay That's what I thought: overload! Question: Do you think the heavily patriarchal DPRK would accept a daughter as a leader?

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

@@paraniidnyc great question. And that seems to be the question most observers are asking. It raises a fascinating challenge for the Kim family. With two female contenders, the danger is that they could undermine each other. The survival of the regime may mean working closely together. I’m not sure if the sister has children. Maybe she could take over and then pass it to her niece later. It will be so interesting to see how this plays out.

@eedragonr6293 Год назад

It is not overloaded. Usually the siblings and the family must decide to support the heir or to fight for power against her/him.

@bruceli9094 Год назад

NK is doing a good job re-militarising Japan and South Korea lol

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Yes, indeed!

@Clifford_Banes Год назад

Imagine the guy that's gonna marry her

@Klopp2543 Год назад

Hey prof your video are quality as always. I hope you'd do a video on a west shortcoming for example how France neocolonialism in Africa and it's effects? Looted artefacts? IMF? etc etc

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks. If you look through my videos, you will see a lot on the impact of Western colonialism, especially in Africa. It is certainly an issue that I tackle regularly. (See my recent video on France in Algeria.)

@Klopp2543 Год назад

@@JamesKerLindsay thanks. I'll check up on it again. Your videos are excellent as always. If possible do something on how most nations don't prosper and jow tariffs, unequal treaties, African countries getting forced to implement structural adjustment programs by the IMF and World Bank ,global financial system etc. Corruption,looted funds in western banks etc.

@thomassenbart Год назад

It's very difficult to imagine a female taking charge of N. Korea, given the culture.

@CrocodileWhispers Год назад

I love all my history and geo politics channels. I refer to them as my “However network”

@abuhammad Год назад

Starvation to the death of millions of people is a classic characteristic of communism, as witnessed in the early 1920s and 1932 in the Soviet Union, during 1958-1962 China, 1975-1978 Cambodia, and of course in North Korea. They theorized state slavery into people's democracy or democratic dictatorship, the rulers designate themselves as the representative of the people, and persecute exploit the people on behalf of the people whom they allegedly represent. As Xi Jinping put it, this is called full process democracy, and China claims the Western democracy is fake and not good for China.

@Tewhill357 Год назад

Way to break that glass ceiling! You go, girl! 😉

@FOLIPE Год назад

Well this video, as anything on North Korea, seems to be more predicated on wild guesses and assumptions than the ordinary products of this channel. I disagree with some of the assumptions that the video seems to have (inevitability of democracy, the weakness of North Korea, its real strategical position and so on. The general western liberal world view one could say?), but this isn't ordinarily as much of a problem as usually there's more data to base the videos that one can use to support different arguments and interpretations, etc. With North Korea, this video, its somewhat different - its a big castle of interpretation build on a much shakier foundation of data. And so I end with the feeling that as well produced as the video is... It doesn't bring much "new" to the table. Either one already has that world view and thus is likely to agree and maybe organize their views with the video (as its very well structured) or you don't have that world view and you'd offer a different interpretation, but there's little room for learning and dialogue

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

That’s precisely the issue. We just don’t know much about North Korea. But that doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t try to look at it. (I’d never do anything on it I’d we waited for certainties!) In fact, most of the video was about what we do know. I deliberately kept the speculation to a minimum. Nevertheless, it is an interesting issue that should be explored.

@frankswarbrick7562 Год назад

It just amazes me why the leader of such a poor country can't see that he's leading them in the wrong direction. I suppose, like most/all dictators, he cares only for his power and not for his people. I know the Kim family is revered, with almost religions fervor, in North Korea. Is there anything about Korean culture that led to this? And if so, how did South Korea avoid it?

@user-cx9nc4pj8w Год назад

Humans are really easy to fool with propaganda and information control. The Kim family has been in power for over 50 years; they've had plenty of time to instil worship into the population, and even if they hadn't I doubt North Koreans want to make the supreme leader angry. As for culture, North Korea and South Korea have basically the same culture. South Korea was just lucky enough to get the US instead of the USSR

@redjacc7581 Год назад

MacArthur was sooooooooooooooooooooo right, and they thought he was mad.

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Год назад

Yeah, right. Nothing like having a pissed-off PRChina wanting to have nukes earlier than 1964 in OTL and setting an terruble precedent that would make us see WW3 as early as 1962 in Cuba...

@riza-2396 Год назад

Well, another unusual thing like "Arnarcho-Monarchy"

@joshuagrahm3607 Год назад

1:50- "highly secretive *communist* - *state* " Well I guess I did know what I was signing up for when I hit subscribe.

@iljoker4697 Год назад

I had been saying this for at least two years, in fact there is a monarchic-communist ideology I don't know exactly how it works but I know it has existed for quite a while...

@sufthegoat Год назад

I like this

@VladTevez Год назад

Pulgasari 📽

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Blimey! Someone knows their North Korean pop culture. 🤓🙂 🇰🇵 Fascinating.

@danielwilkinson3173 Год назад

Great overall, but just wanted to make sure that people knew - Syngman Rhee was a dictator installed by the Americans in the southern part of Korea, he was by no means a democratically elected leader (even the elections later on were unusual and excluded large areas). There were a lot of protests that saw people go against the Americans, as they saw them as a replacement for the Japanese (to the point that in Japan, after the Americans had conquered it, they used Korean slaves just as the Imperial Japanese did). Even on Jeju Island, Syngman Rhee killed around (if not over) 10% of the population there, because they preferred Communist ideals over American imperial rule, as Korea was a very classist society with the rich very much ruling throughout their history. Furthermore, the North did not invade just because they had an itch one day, but the cross border attacks from the South had reached a boiling point, and there are more factors at play. When framing the North as an anti-imperialist nation, wanting to rid of the Japanese and Americans off their territory, their stance suddenly becomes clearer. But anyway, I just thought I would mention this all, in case people still had a backwards mentality of 'Good vs Evil' on the Korean peninsula. When in reality, it is not like that at all.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks. Well noted!

@MrChewie1138 Год назад

The North at the time was just as dependent on the USSR, and was no more democratic. The North had invaded because it wanted to unify the nation, the border clashes were just an excuse of course.

@johnnypericles1353 Год назад

North Korea feels like a situation that the longer is ignored the worse it gets. I feel like a regime like it with a functional nuclear arsenal is too dangerous to be left alive, but a military solution is far behind us. South Korea would likely be devastated and China would almost certainly intervene. I don't know of any other solution than simply waiting and hope in some future they open up. I'm curious what professionals think is the best realistic scenario for their future. Great video.

@0816M3RC Год назад

They way they have been acting lately, they are heading to nuclear annihilation.

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Год назад

Toppling North Korea militarily is not a feasible option even back in 1951 as the PRChinese intervention happened solely because they don't want a hostile country being beside their borders. The only way North Korea would be toppled is if PRChina is not banking its defense strategy behind the former as a meat shield against any US-led forces...

@communistdoge413 Год назад

There isn’t a solution beyond waiting at the end of the day. A military solution is out of the question as it would result in nukes being used and Chinese intervention and they won’t collapse as China wants North Korea to act as a buffer state to prevent US based being built on its border and so will do what ever is necessary to keep them alive to act as said buffer. The status quo is the best we can hope for

@spellman007 Год назад

America is more dangerous than the DPRK

@transferdestek7873 Год назад

08:29 As a journalist, you have to explain the reason for this shortage. The reason for this shortage was the USA's use of chemical weapons on agricultural lands in violation of international agreements, and North Korea's detonation of important dams, preventing agriculture from being carried out.

@rinzo2009 Год назад

Professor James, am confused now. Who's gonna become the Mother of the Korean Revolution? Is it the sister, his wife or his daughter? One thing is for sure though. A woman is definitely gonna be sitting in Pyongyang very soon.

@maestro1918 Год назад

Look at the great influence of those 17 km border with Russia...

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Absolutely! If it hadn’t been for that, the tide of history might have been very different indeed.

@lovetohate028 Год назад

Didn't The Onion do a skit about female dictatorship?

@lovetohate028 Год назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iEtw3XJoJrE.html Found it. Life imitates memes

@MedicalMilitaryDoctors Год назад

It would be interesting how she would treat women rights seeing she's female or if she'd be allowed to rule at all

@sriharshacv7760 Год назад

I don't understand why the word 'wife' is replaced by the word 'partner'. Not directed against the professor but wondering in general.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Because it seems that Kim Jong-il had wives and consorts, hence partners. www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11297747.amp

@supercharger5727 Год назад

I just hope North Korea becomes a constitutional monarchy by the time she becomes a queen or Supreme leader or dear leader

@philipbrookes1078 Год назад

There a paper tiger like China and Russia

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks. It’s a really interesting situation. One has to wonder how the country and regime survives. But they do have rather a lot of raw materials. And while it is cut off from the West, North Korea has more trade links than we realise. And then there’s the organised crime. Topped off with a large military and nuclear weapons it’s a very, very strange and dangerous country. It seems more oddly resilient than anyone expects. Perhaps it’s all that Juche.

@interregionalapricot1312 Год назад

North Korea is not Marxist; they are Juche. The country has been abandoning Marxism-Leninism since 1992 and WPK confirmed that Juche is an "independent" ideology. The main tenet of Juche revolves aroud self-sufficiency, a.k.a. autarky. WPK's ideological standing is also ultranationalist and xenophobic, much to the dismay of the Marxist thought.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks. Indeed. But there have been so many variants of socialism. I think can’t we still say that this is a political offshoot of Marxism, even if it has departed radically from the original tenets of the ideology?

@eedragonr6293 Год назад

Do you mean to keep manufacturing and jobs and not to export them? And to ask them to come back? That is socialism

@ZacharyBittner Год назад

@@JamesKerLindsay it’s not just an offshoot though. It’s an offshoot and rejection of an offshoot. I imagine the equivalent would be to refer to Satanism as a fundamentally Jewish religion since Satanism derived and rejected aspects of the Christian religion and Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism. While technically true that Satanism could be seen as judaeo-Christian, calling Satanism a variant of Judaism would be strange.

@mojewjewjew4420 Год назад

Soviets were ultrantionalists, chauvinists for the russian side, antisemitic and xenophobic, its actually part of the standard tenets of communism.

@charlesmadre5568 Год назад

@@ZacharyBittner I would say Satanism is a variant of the Abrahamic family of religions, absolutely.

@Oldchannel68 Год назад

Why is he like this???

@Zen-sx5io Год назад

Extreme narcissism, greed and grandeur.

@bremnersghost948 Год назад

They look at each other like Lovers not Father & Daughter, Something seriously wrong there.

@mirabeaux851 Год назад

I would hardly call NK “communist” or “marxist”. Very Rousseau

@IAmTheOnlyLucas Год назад

Great video Professor! I've just finally got around to joining the channel as a member. 🙂 North Korean officials and western NK sympathizers-sincere or not-are often quick to point out that the DPRK is not Communist or Marxist-Leninist, but rather that they follow Juche. It means self-reliance. I'm certain that in somewhere in the annals of Juche's written theory, (a theory that, similar to other Communist-style political/economic systems, doesn't work in practice) the Kim family are enshrined as the righteous, optimal rulers of a Juche system of government in North Korea's territory. I also believe that they differentiate Juche from Communism due to the original Soviet mission being anti-monarchy, when any observer worth their salt can see that the Kim family are essentially a monarchy.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Hi there Lucas! Brilliant. Thanks so much. That's really great. A very warm welcome! :-) Don't forget to sign up to the Discord Server. North Korea is such a strange state, in pretty much every way. I like the description Marxist Monarchy (a term that was first used in the 1970s) as it raises two fascinating questions. Is it really Marxist, and it was clearly created, and can we really think of it as a monarchy?

@blackkn1ght Год назад

I mean, Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh exists, so we already have a current female dictator.

@Shiroya_Rumika Год назад

If we are gonna talk about North Korean Queen, Kim Yo-Jong take that title

@alexgray2482 Год назад

"world's first female dictator" - Indra Gahndi has entered the chat

@randygiannini1418 Год назад

As a sympathizer it always seems evident to me how it's unfortunate Mao Tse Tung didn't do this.

@RobespierreThePoof Год назад

There's a family dynasty. It's autocratic. So .... Yes

@sotiriskouzalou2493 Год назад

Professor have you any idea how democracy is, voting for new monarchs every 3-5 years does not represent democracy. Even in Greece their democracy was not absolute as women were not able to participate.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Sorry, but I’m not quite sure what your point is? Perhaps elaborate.

@medicuswashington9870 Год назад

The fact of China has changed the design.

@sufthegoat Год назад

Nope I wish it was

@frenzalrhomb6919 Год назад

A "Marxist WTF did you say?"

@jackwiegmann Год назад

Hi James. I think it's interesting to note that, in their quest for true isolationism and self-reliance, NK had their portrait of Marx removed from their center square, and any mention of Marx or Marxism redacted from their constitution. Why worship the thoughts of a European when you can worship those of a Korean?

@toi_techno Год назад

Every so-called "communist state has been a Neo-monarchy. There has never been an actual communist nation. The nearest to what Marx meant is probably contemporary Finland.

@TheFirebird123456 Год назад

I don't know what u mean by neo monarchy; neither china nor the soviet union have been controlled by dynastic rule; i.e. blood line is method of choosing sucession. If u mean centralized power into one person i.e. dictatorship, then yes I would agree with u, though I would argue more for oligarchy.

@Dave102693 Год назад

@@TheFirebird123456 all of the leaders of those countries came from prestige, well of families, and did/still are operating as nobles.

@charlesmadre5568 Год назад

@@TheFirebird123456 Monarchies almost always come with a large aristocratic class. Every self-described socialist nation has in the past had a privileged class of party bureaucrats that for all intents functioned like an aristocracy. So those countries were quite monarchical in that sense.

@FalconsEye58094 Год назад

Either way it looks like we may have a woman dictator next

@timmyturner327 Год назад

Inherited political relevance is generally the norm in the world, not the exception.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks. Not sure that it is. As I mentioned, around 40 countries are formally monarchies. And there are certainly republics where power is directly passed on (one generation straight to the next) or where families have dominated at different times through electoral processes. But I don’t think we can say it is the norm.

@timmyturner327 Год назад

@@JamesKerLindsay That's what I'm getting at. Politics as a family business is far more common than many realize it to be. I overstated my case a bit. Thanks for the good video, btw.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

@@timmyturner327 Thanks a lot. By the way, when I lived in Greece many years ago I remember being told that it had the highest number of MPs who were the children of MPs in the world.

@timmyturner327 Год назад

@@JamesKerLindsay what was the %?

@user-zb4ef5tf7m Год назад

Аuthor surprisingly elegantly bypasses the connection between the DPRK's decline and the extinction of the socialist bloc as a whole. He is trying to say, that North Korea has become a pariah country by itself, that this is its own choice, and not at all the deprivation of the main and most important trading partners in the face of *all* countries of the WTO and countless American sanctions and embargoes, because of which no one wanted to trade with it after 1991, even former allies in the bloc - China and Russia, completely reforged by that time into states with a market economy and have already begun to acquire mutually beneficial ties with the United States and because of what is actually cut off * from* * the whole * * world* country was forced to survive as best it could.

@savvasbambos2669 Год назад

We like to see you making a clip about occupied Palestine and the Palestinian GENOCIDE of 1940???? All the support ❤❤❤

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks. I have already made a video about Palestine ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DoD2UiyXqEA.html

@markdowding5737 Год назад

If Marx were to hear that 100 years after his death a self-proclaimed Marxist would try to create a communist monarchy, his reaction would vary between having a heart attack and bursting out laughing.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Indeed. But it is fascinating to see how this has happened, and whether it can indeed continue.

@FlamingBasketballClub Год назад

Please do a future video on the Farmers protests in India and The Netherlands within the last 2 years.

@hughjass1044 Год назад

Always said that I had my doubts they'd ever allow a woman to take over but it appears they may not have a choice. He's got no brothers left who could fill the roll and no sons that we know of, or at least no sons old enough so if his health really is as fragile as it seems, we may just have a female successor though it's certain to be his sister before his daughter.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

Thanks. It really is an interesting situation, isn’t it? The daughter is clearly too young to rule at the moment. The sister looks a more likely successor. But her brother may want to keep her in check. (This is one of the theories why the daughter has been brought out in public.) Meanwhile, one has to wonder if the elite ready to accept either, as women? And if neither is acceptable, then the Kim family may be eased out. Perhaps with unpleasant consequences. A power struggle could bring them all down.

@eedragonr6293 Год назад

With the recent war I looked one more time at what comes next after this war and systems. The nations and systems of "disappearing", "useless" women where the number of men is bigger than the number of women. Would they be more successful in war?

@fedoralexandersteeman6672 Год назад

Is it really Marxist though, if it's nationalist state capitalist really?

@mou6854 Год назад

capitalist? nice joke😂

@jackwilliamatkins5602 Год назад

God is in Nunawading

@henrybn14ar Год назад

Queen Jung the First. There's a thought. She could have married Harry if Meghan hadn't got there first.

@stookful Год назад

A maxist monarchy is not possible, it's an oxymoron.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

That’s rather the point of the video! It shouldn’t be possible. But North Korea seems to have created what looks remarkably like one!

@dmorw9601 Год назад

I have never understood why the focus has always been on how dangerous North Korea is to “the rest of the world.” The United States currently has approximately 30,000 troops stationed in South Korea, just south of North Korea. Shouldn’t we be more concerned about the USA threatening “The Hermit Kingdom?” How did we get to thinking so backward? The nation going out of its way to put troops next door to its enemy border is considered the one getting a pass in the discussion. As for their nuclear weapons…. Again, what is the issue? If we are not having a belly-ache over nuclear weapons by the USA, France, Britain, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and Israel, why are we so offended by them in the hands of North Korea? After all, the only nation that has ever used the Atomic bomb is the USA. It is not wise to have them in the hands of any nation. However, let’s not pretend that the North Koreans are somehow different from the power hungry structures and dominance seeking dwellers in the capitols of other countries. Particular those of Western Europe and North America. They are all humans…..driven by the same inclinations.

@user-cx9nc4pj8w Год назад

Because North Korea withdrew from the NPT which it had previously signed. India and Pakistan did not sign if I remember correctly. More importantly, except for Russia, none of the other nuclear powers are threatening to use their nuclear weapons, whereas North Korea has been continually behaving aggressively. As for the US, North Korea literally invaded South Korea once and as Russia has shown us, they would do it again if they could. South Korea deserves to be safe, and if the US and South Korea can find a mutually beneficial relationship, which they have, North Korea isn't being threatened, because the US knows what would happen if they invaded. And for the record, I am "having a bellyache" over Russia, Israel, and Pakistan having nuclear weapons, because these countries might find themselves in a situation where they'll actually use them

@dmorw9601 Год назад

@@user-cx9nc4pj8w I won’t even try to counter those arguments of yours. Continue. If North Korea’s history of invading South Korea is where you are going to hang your hat when the USA has invaded more nations than other country since the beginning of the 20th century, then you are too far gone and in too deep for a discussion. What’s worst is that I am convinced you are aware of that fact since you so astutely recalled NPT details. And, when has it been so wrong to withdraw from a treaty? Are we robots? Countries join and withdraw from treaties when either action is deemed to be within their best interest. The USA withdrew from the Paris Accord while Donald Trump was President. Did we go to war over that? What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Screams at the top of your lungs against the USA and Russia for their piles of nuclear armament before making your way down to the bottom of the ladder to the one with the smallest cache.

@JamesKerLindsay Год назад

As has been pointed out, North Korea has flouted all the rules of international relations. It has developed nuclear weapons. It has engaged in terrorism. It has been involved in international organised crime. Yes, other countries do bad things, including the United States. But this is a very strange and unstable regime. I think we should all be very worried about it.

@dmorw9601 Год назад

@@JamesKerLindsay who are we to describe anyone or any regime as “strange and unstable?” What is wrong with “strange?” What is wrong with being different? As for unstable, there are unstable regimes out there: Haiti, Somalia. North Korea is a frightened country with very good reason to be scared. It watched Lybia de-armed of nuclear weapons only to have its “regime” disemboweled. It watched Iraq destroyed over a lie of WMDs while the rest of the world watched. It has its arch enemy on its doorstep with over 30000 troops who practice invasion of its country on an almost yearly basis. Why should it not be frightened and be “strange?” There is scarcely a crime that it is being accused of perpetrating or planning to commit that has not been committed by the likes of Great Britain, Russia/The Soviet Union, and the USA. Yet, we continue to pick on them. Why? Perhaps it is because they are smaller. Or, it is possibly because the other nations I mentioned, have media houses that have done an exceptional propaganda job that allows us to be less focus on their crimes and more concerned about North Korea. It’s time to leave them alone.

@xyz-hx5dh Год назад

@@dmorw9601 Brother whatever you are saying is actually the truth. Actually I also strongly believe that if northkorea was not embargoed it would be a far better country. The country that can survive create nuclear weapon in itself is astounding. Jus imagine what would they would have done if all those trade embargo restrictions where not in place.