U.S. Game Plan for South Korea
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Even a film screening of a North Korean family drama is getting South Korean organizers in trouble under the administration of right-wing President Yoon, as he takes the country back toward the oppressive regime of the 1980s when reading certain books could result in jail time.
Brian is joined by K.J. Noh, a peace activist, organizer with Pivot to Peace, scholar on the geopolitics of Asia, and a frequent contributor to Counterpunch and Dissident Voice.
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| 0:00.0 | Showing a wholesome film that even has a math lesson in it is getting South Korean organizers in hot water. |
| 0:11.1 | Why? Because it's from North Korea. Not even a year into office, right-wing South Korean President |
| 0:18.8 | Yun is demonstrating his subservience to U.S. Geostrategic goals |
| 0:24.8 | and its anti-communist program. |
| 0:28.7 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:32.9 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:37.2 | but is not only realizable, |
| 0:40.0 | but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. If you enjoy or rely on this show or both, please show your support by |
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| 1:26.5 | forward slash the socialist program today we're talking once |
| 1:31.0 | again with kj no kj is a peace activist he's a scholar he's also an organizer with pivot to peace |
| 1:39.4 | he's a frequent contributor to counterpunch and dissident voice. |
| 1:45.0 | KJ. No, welcome back. |
| 1:47.0 | Thank you. Pleasure to be with you. |
| 1:49.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:50.0 | KJ, it's a, I don't know, a criminal act to watch a movie, I guess, in South Korea. |
| 1:56.0 | What's going on? |
| 1:58.0 | Well, it's interesting, isn't it? |
| 2:00.0 | Because if you listen to the Western corporate |
| 2:01.6 | media, they always say North Korea prosecutes North Koreans for watching South Korean movies or |
| 2:07.8 | South Korean dramas. But we don't know if that's true. I mean, all of that is, you know, |
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