Report: Kim Jong-un's Ruthless
Rule Gets Uglier
from North Korea. South Korean intelligence has
reported that Kim Jong-un has executed some
fifteen of his top officials, including the vice minister
of forestry. Granted, as satraps of the world’s
cruelest regime, it’s hard to gin up much sympathy
for the dead. But, unfortunately, it does indicate
that the dauphin Kim is every bit as brutal as his
father and grandfather were. They would be so proud.
The news also underlines the fact that we’re – alas – highly unlikely to see any kind of
The news also underlines the fact that we’re – alas – highly unlikely to see any kind of
Perestroika, economic or political, under Kim Jong-un’s leadership. There are two reasons
for this. For one, Kim has evidently taken to quite literally executing officials who lobby for
reforms. He appears to be fully committed to maintaining his country’s ghastly system as it is.
Secondly, as the perceptive North Korea analyst Andrei Lankov has pointed out, the
incentives facing North Korea’s intelligentsia are aligned in such a way as to discourage
reform. After all, as soon as the regime lets in even a bit of daylight, it will plant the seeds
of its own demise. That is to say, if the North Korean people were to find out how they
lived compared to people in the rest of the world (let alone in South Korea), there’s little
doubt that Kim and his henchmen would get the Ceausescu treatment. Deservedly.
Source: The Weekly Standard
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