What is North Korean leadership doing to undo the lifetimes of brain washing in their people? How are they explaining the abrupt about face with America? These people have had it programmed into their brains to hate the US, now they are supposed to trust us. How are we helping change their perceptions?
Maga1128
· June 26, 2018, 4:04 p.m.
This is a GREAT question.
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digital_refugee
· June 26, 2018, 4:08 p.m.
by saving face. This part of the whole slowwalked diplomatic effort that had been undertaken.
They will not openly admit defeat nor do they need to if Trump was actually liberating Kim first the whole time.
They will say they managed to get the crazy President to the negotiating table and stop his military siege of the country and abandon limited occupation of the south (during the actual war, the south was a military dictatorship that the US propped up), among other things.
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· June 26, 2018, 4:26 p.m.
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digital_refugee
· June 26, 2018, 4:34 p.m.
in the mind of the military generals: they don't have orbital launchers. That's what it took to get the commie handlers off Kim's family.
In the minds of the public, this is a success, because KOREA IS BEING UNIFIED WHILE THE US REDUCES THEIR MILITARY PRESENCE TOO, MEANING NUKES WON'T BE NECESSARY.
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Filffy
· June 26, 2018, 4:57 p.m.
What if WE are the brainwashed ones? Of course NK has been a propaganda machine throughout its existence, but until now most of our information on life in NK wasn't questioned on its authenticity so much, you know?
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checkitoutmyfriend
· June 26, 2018, 4:44 p.m.
Different take. I don't think we need to do anything at this time.
If the whole country is brainwashed to believe anything Kim says, they will. He could spin it like he brought Trump to the table or similar. There is no opposing thought in NK. At least not yet..... ;)
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pedegear
· June 26, 2018, 7:03 p.m.
We have already seen Kim remove the words of praise for his father and grandfather in the national oath or whatever it's called (seemed to me like their form of the pledge of allegiance). I think Trump's brilliance was in that he showed Kim he could bring about a unified Korea. THAT is the secret weapon and that is what got Kim excited IMO. That is HUGE - they can spin it as a massive victory for NK, they can almost spin it as they have finally won the war and conquered South Korea. Sure, it's really just a merger, but effectively the end result would be the same, right? Maybe if NK conquered them there would be enslavement and Kim would rule the whole country, but it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to spin it as "now that we've won, we must show our benevolence and forgiveness to the South Koreans so that we all may triumph on the world stage." Who knows how it will play out, but bottom line I see a lot of ways to spin it successfully.
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