Could North Korea Collapse?
Simon Whistler · July 27, 2023 · 24 min video · China & Indo-Pacific
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Ever since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, analysts have been wondering about North Korea. Might the DPRK be next? Might the Kim regime fall as suddenly and spectacularly as the Berlin Wall leading to German star reunification with the South?
It's a question that seemed most urgent in the 1990s, when Kim Il Sung died and the Hermit Kingdom plunged into a devastating famine. But it resurfaced when Kim Jong Un took power in 2011, and has since been tro tted out like a clockwork every time Pyongyang suffers a crisis, this happened to the extent that it's almost become a bit of a cliché.
But as the saying goes, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, following reports in late June that the country is suffering a renewed famine.
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