key-PICKINGS from my NORTH KOREAN DIARY 11.–21. April 2011
Coming by train from Beijing on April 10, having experienced the enormous building boom, industrial development, highway building and the extension of the superspeed train right up to the DPRK border town, my guess was that “Big Brother“ would tell the last Stalinist dictatorship of “My Dear Leader” KIM YONG IL, that time had come. When I sat foot in the DPRK, I was under the impression that only China had the key to the future of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. And so it was a reinforcement of my thinking how things would develop when Lukas, my son in law, sent me from Shanghai CHINA DAILY’s article on
tricky PICKINGS from my NORTH KOREAN DIARY 11.–21. April 2011
KIM IL SUNG at the Grand People's Study House
It’s NOT a lie! No, I don’t say they lie at me. It is a different frame of mind, sometimes it is an anxious state of mind that dictates them and their actions, other times it looks like utter confusion or just paranoia in hiding.
It is the dictum of “The Eternal President“ KIM IL SUNG – the only statesman on earth who remains President even after his death in 1994 that is of utmost importance.
KIM IL SUNG at the Grand People's Study House
KIM IL SUNG – The Eternal President
He and his son KIM JONG IL, called “My Dear Leader“, are telling Right from Wrong, Good from Bad. They decide what is real and what has to be banned, who is sent to the university or to the work camp, to the labor camp or to the gulag. KIM IL SUNG and KIM JONG IL have a six-decade grip on power.
KIM IL SUNG with local guide in the entrance of the Grand People's Study House
All in the Family - KIM IL SUNG “The Eternal President" and his son KIM YONG IL, called “My Dear Leader"
Our two “permanent“ guides work under the spell of this government-mind-set, they tell me that the local shops are closed when they are open, that people don’t like to make contact with a foreigner when in fact they wish just that. They change our itinerary every day but if we want to make an additional stop, it’s impossible.
This gentle local guide liked my questions, Agricultural University, Wonsan area
They make me feel like a disobedient child who doesn’t quite get it when I keep asking questions or like a snake in the grass when I make photos of simple life events.
Fear is guiding the system. The world of DPRK is under a delusion.
The hinge joint is the personality cult.
My guess is that “Big Brother“ will tell them. China holds the key to the future of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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