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Becoming Kim Jong Un
This episode unpacks the psychological and strategic journey of an unlikely successor consolidating absolute power in a totalitarian state, revealing the profound human cost of such a system.
“This episode unpacks the psychological and strategic journey of an unlikely successor consolidating absolute power in a totalitarian state, revealing the profound human cost of such a system.”
— Jung H. Pak, Becoming Kim Jong Un
North Korea, Dictatorship, Power Consolidation, Geopolitics
If you've ever wondered how absolute power is truly seized and maintained in a modern totalitarian state, this will sharpen your understanding of its chilling mechanisms, and this will help you see what to do next.
Jung H. Pak, a former CIA analyst and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, brings a rare, informed perspective to the inner workings of North Korea's leadership and the strategic calculus behind its actions.