North Korea on the Edge. By B. R. Myers.

North Korea on the Edge.

By B. R. Myers.

North Korean Notes

By Uncle Monty.
"Little Kim" Photo By Alex

Albion Inside North Korea.

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"North Korea on the Edge"
If the regime collapses, will the rest of the world be ready?
B. R. Myers is a professor at Dongseo University in South

Korea and author of "The Cleanest Race."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704100604575145672974954144.html?mod=WSJEUROPE_hpp_RIGHTTopCarousel
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North Korean Soldiers' Class Reunion.

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North Korean Notes By Uncle Monty.
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Looking back now on my own 10-day visit inside North Korea,
I have come to realise more and more that I had, in fact, been

privy to an extraordinary experience that was tantamount to
visiting "The Twilight Zone" of the Stalinist Democratic People's

Republic of Korea and its "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il.

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Very few Englishmen like me have had the chance to personally

enter such a "Twilight Zone" that I shall always remember here on

out no matter where else I may in future tread around the globe.

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Professor Myers’ essay of “North Korea on the Edge” made

me realise just how close I came to experiencing first-hand the
actual character and essence of The North Korea Twilight Zone.
The professor’s knowledge, insight, and expertise on the world’s
last truly Stalinist State has been most helpful for me to futher

understand the true dymanics and strange culture that is uni-

quely Korean in nature and history that hitherto I had not fully

grasped until reading his Wall Street Journal piece. How glad

I did to happen to read his knowledgeable piece. It is well

worth sharing with my blog readership, so I think.

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Although, I suspect the West has for years expected the

imminent collapse of the Stalinist Regime perhaps Pro-

fessor Myers isn't too far off from suggesting such a

possible final outcome under the present circumstances

that beset the Korean Penisula. Sooner or later the whole

mess in the North is going to give and get uglier with its

internal collapse almost inevitable no matter what by

the end of this decade of 2010 or even earlier. If not,

it will strangely survive to live beyond yet another

decade as the "Belly of the Beast."

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I am fascinated by North Korea quite obviously

and I watch with great interest all that transpires

from out of North Korea and what the future will

behold for the oppressed people of Kim Jong Il

and his brainwashed military and his Stalinist

state thugs all poised against the freedom and

welfare of his downtrodden people ...
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Meet One of "The Little" North Korean "Kim

Jong Il" at Pyongyang that I bumped into with

my North Korean interpreters and armed body-

guards as we strolled thru the city park on a

mid-Saturday afternoon in 2oo7. The little kid

was rather puzzled and bewild, and his parents,

too, at getting such photographic attention!!

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Also, Professor Myers' view that the political,

social and nationalistic rhetoric of the North Korean

Regime is now more akin to Japan Fascists or Pacific

Fascism than Stalinism, reminded me of how I was

struck by the almost Nazi-style goosesteps and the

kind of "Heil Hitler" salutes of the People's soldiers at

the various checkpoints I encountered, and was stopped

at, as I travelled on the almost deserted and crumbling

highways - interstates or motorways or autobahns -

beyond the capital of Pyongyang to such places as the

West Sea Wall, which U.S. President Jimmy Carter

also visited as then the first American president

to ever visit inside North Korea.

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While the good professor seems to be right, the

rhetoric of the extreme left (Stalinism) and the

extreme right (Fascism) is all but a degree or two

from each other. Therefore, the two extreme

idealogies can become almost indistinquishable

in terms of the political, social, and nationalistic

rhetoric that is used and exploited by such

national masters of citizen oppression,

it seems to me.

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The Mail article also details the military numbers

behind the standing armies of both North and South

Korea in its report on the mysterious sinking of a South

Korean navy ship near the North Korean coastline:

By David Williams & Paul Bentley.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1261118/Search-survivors-sunken-South-Korea-navy-ship-officials-rule-involvement-North.html

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All the best, Uncle Monty.

+Palm Sunday, 2010.
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