Jung Pak on 'Becoming Kim Jong Un'
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🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Jung Pak is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a former CIA analyst and a North Korea specialist. She is the author of "Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Analyst’s Insights into North Korea’s Enigmatic Young Dictator.” She joined Benjamin Wittes to discuss Kim Jong Un, the recent questions about whether he had died or become seriously ill, his rise to power and his confrontations with Donald Trump over nuclear weapons.
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| 0:56.6 | They're indoctrinated or going into these schools to learn about all of the things that |
| 1:03.6 | make the Kim family great. |
| 1:05.1 | Why Kim Jong-il did certain things and why we should follow and Kim Jong-il did and now |
| 1:13.3 | all of the things that Kim Jong-il did. |
| 1:15.2 | So these mythology, the education, the ideology, are steeped. |
| 1:20.4 | The country steeped with all of these ideas of Kim family greatness. |
| 1:26.2 | All of those questions came to the fore in the past three weeks when Kim Jong-il was absent |
| 1:31.0 | from public view about what does that mean for the next Kim? |
| 1:35.5 | What does that mean for who might succeed in North Korea, stomach, another Kim? |
| 1:42.2 | Or would there be some sort of military group that would be taking power? |
| 1:50.8 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the Law Fair Podcast May 5, 2020. |
| 1:57.5 | Jung Pak is a Brookings senior fellow and a close colleague. |
| 2:02.6 | She is also a former CIA analyst and North Korea specialist. |
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