Dear Comrade Leader, Episode 335
Moreover, two of the three pillars of North Korea’s industries proclaimed and fostered by General Secretary Kim Jeong-hwan (and still maintained), oil refining and finance, were both industries that created extremely small jobs compared to their industrial value.
Although the electronic device industry represented by modern electronics and manufacturing such as Ssangwoo automobile tend to create a lot of high-paying jobs, it is still a latecomer in terms of industry. There is this.
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North Korea’s representative high value-added manufacturing and drone industries, which are suggested as alternatives, have not yet reached maturity and are small in scale, and IT and financial industries such as Union and Peony Holdings create only a small number of highly educated jobs.And the majority of young North Koreans living in the era of high unemployment in the late 2010s are often referred to as ‘Kim Jeong-hwan people’, or ‘white swallows’, a term that is often called a mixture of sarcasm and self-help.
Those who correspond to Korea’s ‘880,000 won generation’ or ‘fifth generation’ are young people born in the late 1980s and early 1990s who have just entered society and are facing employment and marriage problems. These are the generations where the memories of the communist North Korea of the era do not exist at all.
The name Baekjebi above is also due to their situation of snooping around wearing white shirts and throwing resumes from place to place in order to find a high-paying office worker who does not need to work in a hot place when it is hot or in a cold place when it is cold. The name was given in the sense of self-help because it is similar to ‘Kkotjebi’.
Depending on the variation, the ‘living house swallow’ who moves from place to place due to the housing shortage in the Pyongyang-Gaeseong metropolitan area several times, the ‘card swallow’ running around to fill the bank account with hole in the card price at the end of each month, for married people, find a school and a better parenting environment The fact that even a ‘childcare swallow’ who sells their feet appears for this is a bitter social picture from the point of view of this researcher, which is not someone else’s business.
The problem is that after market opening in 1991, the population has increased as much as Korea’s baby boomers due to market economy, improved living standards, and improved medical environment. The point is that they are expressing their dissatisfaction with the reality and are becoming an invisible support force for the Nationalist Party or Descendants Party.
The youth unemployment problem has already been a problem in the South and South Korea since the early 2000s, and at one time there was an optimistic view that North Korea would absorb and digest the unemployed in the South similar to the time of the foreign exchange crisis as economic exchanges between the two Koreas deepened and North Korea developed. However, these predictions were only half right.
Industrial automation and IT in the north (these days, even unmanned due to the use of drones in all industries have overlapped) have progressed faster than everyone expected, so these days, on the contrary, young North Koreans are coming down to the south in search of work. It was.
In other words, the current difficulties in employment and the growth of the far-right parties can be seen as a result of Kim Jung-hwan’s industrial design ideas being too well matched.
What’s even more worrisome is the fact that there are many cases of young people from the far-right south who are dissatisfied with the reality due to similar social problems to a North Korean party such as the Nationalist Party, applying for membership or expressing their support for the party.
– Democracy X or President X. The only way to fix this guy’s Hell-Joseon is by prescription! All foreign workers are like us
-Democracy, no, escaping from MinXism is intelligent~~^^ It’s a policy that favors women, feminism, so let’s go to the North, where men are still treated like heaven and men are treated, rather than in South Korea, where people talk nonsense, this is it!
– No, I can go to the north now to increase the power of the Nationalist Party, and then when the reunification is complete, I can vote for the Nationalist Party or the successor party in the elections to be held at that time. Then doesn’t South Korea automatically become ‘correct’?
-admit. Even in America these days, the Trump or some kind of yangban is saying, ‘America is to Americans!’ They used to say cool ciders while saying ‘Make America Great Again’, but so should we. The U.S. has become strange after the inauguration of a new president, but how come we are in a bad mood these days? PC (Political Correctness) worms have no answer, so they should be incinerated early… … .
4. Future prospects and alternatives.
This is the reason why this researcher earnestly suggests in this report that such movements of the far-universe forces should be prevented at an early stage in solidarity with the North’s general secretary Hyun Young-sook.
In the early stages of the unification discussion a few years ago, some nightmares were like, ‘What if Kim Jung-hwan runs for president as a candidate of the Workers’ Party of Korea by taking advantage of the division between the ruling and opposition parties in South Korea and then becomes president of a reunified South Korea with overwhelming support from the North Korean people?’ From the perspective of the Korean people who do this), the idea may be realized in the worst form several times more.
Of course, that argument, the so-called ‘new red-hot unification theory’, disappeared from a small number of unification skeptics and thanks to the early nailing of the North that ‘there will be a separate election with a transitional period for a considerable period of time’ at the beginning of the discussion. only.
In fact, former general secretary Jeong Hwan still has absolute support from the former North even after his retirement, and at present, there are quite a few supporters of Kim Jung-hwan in the South, too.
The name Kim Jung-hwan is already a myth of a new development dictator in both North and South Korea, but by giving up its brilliance at the last moment, even those who basically support democracy are like a saying that arouses the following secret desires hidden deep in their hearts. because it’s gone
– Politicians who only care for their own interests and can’t see an inch ahead are boring now. Please, if an iron man leader who turns off the attention of politics appears and solves all problems on his own, and guarantees the future of the country and my comfort… … .
Therefore, in the name of following Kim Jung-hwan, those who seek to promote political interests by promoting volatile ideologies common to both South and North Korea such as exclusive nationalism and self-national supremacy, which he extremely avoided during his time in office, continue to appear after the Nationalist Party and Successor Party. something to do.
If you remember how long it took to erase the shadows of the dead dictators right now in Korea, and how much time and political energy the parasites in the shadows consumed as they became a symbol and a symbol of an ideology, what would it be? In a sense, even after retirement, Kim Jung-hwan is exerting a stronger influence than before.
However, in response to this researcher’s concerns, the informant showed unexpectedly optimistic observations.
-I can understand that concern, but the crucial difference is that the yangbans are dead, but I am alive. How do you sell a corpse when the person in question is still alive? If you want the situation to be strange, you can go back to the Republic yourself and say, ‘I didn’t know such people and I never gave such a teaching’, and that’s enough. Well, I’m with Comrade Hyun Young-sook… … . I trust another friend, so it won’t happen anyway.
(Excerpt from an interview with an informant)
In fact, the North and the new general secretary Hyun Young-suk have been taking measures from both yin and yang regarding Jundong, the far-right party, including Lee Seop-gi, the successor of the party, since the beginning of time, and the effectiveness of these short-term measures has been confirmed through various sources of information.
In addition, the current general secretary will take long-term measures such as bringing Yanbian into the arms of the North and bringing out large-scale infrastructure investment from both South and North Korea by including Yanji in the 2nd – 9th metropolitan system after unification to solve the aforementioned job problem. also showing enthusiasm.
And to add to the researcher’s personal impressions of such short-term measures and the person in charge, Ri Kyung-soo, director of the Investigation Bureau, took the lead role, who was very impressed and benchmarked the methods of former General Secretary Kim, who systematically crushed the Hakchongryon protests. I would rate this as sure.
– Good. comrades. We accept our comrades into the Workers’ Party of Korea and accept the proposal for a seat in the Standing Committee of the Politburo. But before that, I would like you to clarify your position on whether you will support the single-member district system or the proportional representation system in the future negotiations for the unification of the political system with the South. After all, if you join the Politburo, it’s something you have to settle with the South as a standing member.
Director Ri Kyung-soo’s Lee Je-i strategy has been around for some time now, taking advantage of the weakness of the National Party, which still treats the Descendant Party, the former Korean-Chinese, and the new North Korean people as cousins and second-class people, which have the inherent limitations of being a party based in the Yanbian region. He succeeded in dismantling the coalition between the Nationalist Party and the Descendant Party, which was rumored to be dark.
The Houye Party-Nationalist Party and the Labor Party Solidarity Front, which began to disagree with the introduction of the single-member district system, which was a proposal that was difficult to accept from the standpoint of the Huye Party, a small regional party, was described above by the deep-rooted ‘Yanbyeon Nom’ and ‘Treatment of the Manchurian anti-Japanese fighters’ compatriots. It was the result of an emotional battle between ‘the ruthless Pyongyang guys’.
Moreover, Lee Seop-ki, the leader of the Descendants Party, has been leading the NL line, which is famous for being uncompromising and pure-blooded since he was in the South, and the mainline party members of the Nationalist Party are also extreme and militant members of the former Korean People’s Army. Such catastrophe may have been a foreseen result.
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Not long ago, at a debate held by the party leader and the Nationalist Party delegates, there was no disagreement, so there was violence, such as flying cups of water and fistfighting, and the current situation is the disappointment and condemnation of the public. One researcher’s concerns may end in vain.5. Reviews and Citation Sources
As a last resort before the end of this summary report, the identity of the informant should be disclosed here with the consent of the informant.
The background to the fact that this report was able to be written up to this point was the interview and cooperation with Kim Jung-hwan, the former general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the current chairman of the Northeast Asian Balanced Security Foundation, who can be said to be the most important source of information about the intentions and intentions of the top officials of the Workers’ Party of Korea. .
The success of the interview with Chairman Kim Jeong-hwan, who had previously refused most of the media contact regardless of public relations, such as access to the press, autobiography, and interview requests, was also able to draw a lot of unexpected testimonies from him. As a matter of fact, it’s still a bit daunting.
In general, it is highly discouraged to express a researcher’s personal opinion or experience in serious academic research and reports.
However, the Board of Directors of our Institute also expressed curiosity, saying, ‘I do not know why former General Secretary Kim only responded to the interview with Senior Researcher Kim (himself).’ describe some.
Chairman Kim, who refused all interviews from other world-leading media and research institutes, said the following when the researcher carefully asked the reason for accepting the interview when the researcher met him.
-It is natural that you have no memory of meeting me, but for me, it seems that you somehow feel familiar? If I take my interview, the researcher’s superiors may have transferred Researcher Kim to a managerial position with less overtime, so I accepted some.
-yes?
-Oh, it’s only natural that you look surprised, but there’s no need to tilt your head like that. Now, then, sit there and turn on the recorder instead of just staring at it stupidly. Because there are so many things I want to tell you. But did you eat? I wonder if you still like Jeyuk-bokkeum?
(See the attached transcript for the full text thereafter)
July 28, 2020. Kyungsoo Kim, Senior Researcher, Korea Development Institute (KDI)