re: Why dont North Koreans revolt?

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My SIL grew up 25 km from the North Korean border and she says the rural North Korean DO know . They sneak through her village at night , completely disheveled, stealing food , and there is even a network of Chinese who hide and shelter them . She says there is a phrase in Chinese “ one bag of rice - one wife, two bags of rice - two wives” that speaks to the value of N Korean brides. I think that those in Pyongyang are generally living WAY above the North Korean mean and are invested in preserving the status quo and these are the only people Western travelers encounter. I think it would fold like a house of cards outside the military and Pyongyang. Those people would bolt for the borders.


To me it sounds like the days of the true true believers died or started to diminish with the famine. When you hear accounts from generations that lived predominantly under Sung, the brainwashing is just incredible. I think it's still there, but heavily mixed with fear and fatalism at this point.

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