Endless War

Throughline

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

North Korea's famous for being a black box, one of the most secretive and authoritarian countries in the world. It has a nuclear stockpile. A history of erratic behavior. And a particular fixation on antagonizing the outside world — especially the United States. This cycle of antagonism isn't an accident – the U.S. has played a formative role in the history of North Korea. And North Korea's leaders have been invoking that history from the very beginning.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Ramteen.
0:02.2	First, I want to thank all of you for listening to ThroughLine.
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0:35.2	Lately, the headlines have been filled with almost non-stop COVID-19 coverage.
0:41.6	But one story that made it through the wall of coverage recently is centered on the Supreme
0:46.0	Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un.
0:49.2	So we wanted to revisit an episode that helps give context to the country and Kim's
0:54.4	rule over it.
0:55.6	And we're going to start the episode with the story of a doctor in North Korea.
1:06.1	She was very loyal to the North Korean regime.
1:10.8	She wanted to join the party and she really was a true believer.
1:14.3	Her father was a true believer.
1:16.9	And she was working as a pediatrician and was in a terrible situation.
1:23.2	Personally, she had nothing to eat.
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