#317 - North Korean Military Defector EXPOSES Kim Jong Un & “1984” Spy Program | Hyunseung Lee

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Julian Dorey

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 175 minutes

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SPONSORS: 1) Huel: Get Huel today with this exclusive offer for New Customers of 15% OFF with code JULIAN at https://huel.com/JULIAN (Minimum $75 purchase) PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey (***TIMESTAMPS in Description Below) ~ Hyun-seung Lee is a former DPRK businessman and chair of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League branch in Dalian, China. A series of purges by Kim Jong Un forced him and his entire family to defect in late 2014, making their way first to South Korea then to the United States. Lee now works as a director for One Korea Network and a fellow of North Korean studies at the Global Peace Foundation, and he has interned with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. HYUN-SEUNG'S LINKS:HYUN-SEUNG'S LINKS: YT: https://www.youtube.com/c/Pyonghattan FB: https://www.facebook.com/MrNorthKorea X: https://x.com/LeeHyunSeung85 IG: https://www.instagram.com/mr.northkorea/ WEBSITE: https://give.globalpeace.org/campaign/695826/donate FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey JULIAN YT CHANNELS - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Clips YT: https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Daily YT: https://www.youtube.com/@JulianDoreyDaily - SUBSCRIBE to Best of JDP: https://www.youtube.com/@bestofJDP ****TIMESTAMPS**** 00:00 – Indoctrination, Anti-West, Kim Jong Un, Juche, Childhood Brainwashing 08:23 – No Ownership, Rare Foods, Japan Trade Ban, US Defectors, Forced Labor 20:53 – Community Control, Caste System, Military, Regime Worship, Family Life 30:51 – Bible Ban, Dual Lives, Political Identity, Child Labor, Moral Indoctrination 40:04 – Limited Electricity, Food Inequality, Family Reunion, Pyongyang Christianity 51:07 – Religion Ban, Poverty, Illegal Income, Bribery, Soviet Support, Exports 01:02:16 – Labor Exports, Spies, Hidden Dissent, Artist School 01:14:14 – Self-Criticism, No Privacy, Peer Surveillance 01:23:41 – MP3 Ban, Rural Punishment, American Music 01:34:31 – Rodman Visit, Record-Keeping, Cheap Sports, South Park 01:43:02 – Golf Ban, Border Traps, Prison Babies, Embassy Torture 01:55:29 – China Support, Internet Censorship, Event Control 02:05:32 – Coup Impossible, Outside Info, Subversion, Capitalism Exposure 02:15:12 – Anti-Capitalist TV, Kim Propaganda, Lies About Un 02:24:27 – Power Struggle, Economic Study, Human Rights Atrocities 02:37:20 – Starvation, Bugged Homes, U.S. Currency 02:45:45 – Songun, Military-First Policy 02:52:45 - Next phase of story CREDITS: - Host, Editor & Producer: Julian Dorey - COO, Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@UCyLKzv5fKxGmVQg3cMJJzyQ - In-Studio Producer: Joey Deef - https://www.instagram.com/joeydeef/ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 317 - Hyunseung Lee Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So he's God.
0:01.0	North Korea is very strict country and the military is more than million soldiers.
0:07.0	They believe North Korea is a paradise.
0:09.0	And then we have to say thanks for the great leader every time.
0:12.0	If those people criticize the regime, they will be captured, punish it,
0:17.0	they will be imprisoned forever.
0:19.0	So among five people, there was one spy guy. What happens when
0:23.3	people are captured trying to escape? The border patrols, they were instructed now. Any attempt to
0:28.4	escape, you can't shoot them. They utilize AI face recognition technology. There's no chance to
0:34.2	escape through that. The country is now focusing more than controlling. The final comments
0:39.8	always was, if you live in the United States, under capitalism, you ended up like this. And they
0:44.7	showed homeless people on the street, robbery, police chasing cars. But it's not the ending.
0:50.0	If Trump picked Michael Jordan to go to North Korea to convince him, hey, don't develop people in weapons. Kim's what you might think about it. So you're saying Michael Jordan to go North Korea to convince him, hey, don't develop nuclear weapons.
0:55.6	It's not my think of him.
0:56.7	So you're saying Michael Jordan has a Nobel Peace Prize sitting at his fingertips right now.
1:02.4	Hey, guys, if you're not following me on Spotify,
1:05.0	please hit that follow button and leave a five-star review.
1:07.6	They're both a huge huge help.
1:09.0	Thank you.
1:25.3	John, how'd you get the nickname Arthur, or the alter ego, I should say, Arthur. You're just telling me this. Yeah. When I was in North Korea,
1:29.2	the regime surprisingly showed a Disney animation to its Pyongyang citizens, not in Thai and people.
1:38.0	And I watched some, like, slipping beauty and then swore in the the stone I was trying to get cool
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