President-elect Joe Biden's foreign policy team will soon have access to the letters President Donald Trump exchanged with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, correspondence that belongs to the US government -- not Trump -- and could provide insight into one of the world's most enigmatic leaders.
You should be extremely careful with Wikipedia: there's an edit war going on in the DPRK articles, with about half of them locked and policed by the admins to only include imperialist sources, including non-existent and fictional works in order to paint the DPRK dirty (notably, the songbun article), while other, smaller articles are free and have much better sourcing, mostly written by the user Jack Upland like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_North_Korea .
North Korea is also governed by the Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System, which some claim have come to supersede the constitution and in practice serve as the supreme law of the country.
This is one of the fictional articles. No such document exists in Korean, there's a similar one from an old speech by Kim Jong Il (I think) that you can find in korean-books but the content is completely different from what is claimed.
I realised I had nothing saved on this so I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get of the bottom of it. In the end I concluded the principles exist, although I was unable to find a list of these principles that was not published by the CIA and it's unclear how they are relevant in modern Korean society.
What confuses me is, why hide it so much? Even though the principles seem to be taught at school in DPRK, the speech where KJI supposedly codified these principles is in volume 4 of his collected works, which is not translated to English and I cannot find in Korean either on the Internet. I found two reviews of his collected works in korean, and the authors mention that they could not get volume 4. There's a South Korean website with the full text of KJI collected works, and the table of contents for volume 4 is censored and there's a note 'if you really need the full text, call this number'. Why does this happen, it's weird.
My research went way, way, way beyond the character limit so here's a link to it if you're interested: https://rentry.co/dk2ey
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You should be extremely careful with Wikipedia: there's an edit war going on in the DPRK articles, with about half of them locked and policed by the admins to only include imperialist sources, including non-existent and fictional works in order to paint the DPRK dirty (notably, the songbun article), while other, smaller articles are free and have much better sourcing, mostly written by the user Jack Upland like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_North_Korea .
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This is one of the fictional articles. No such document exists in Korean, there's a similar one from an old speech by Kim Jong Il (I think) that you can find in korean-books but the content is completely different from what is claimed.
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I realised I had nothing saved on this so I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get of the bottom of it. In the end I concluded the principles exist, although I was unable to find a list of these principles that was not published by the CIA and it's unclear how they are relevant in modern Korean society.
What confuses me is, why hide it so much? Even though the principles seem to be taught at school in DPRK, the speech where KJI supposedly codified these principles is in volume 4 of his collected works, which is not translated to English and I cannot find in Korean either on the Internet. I found two reviews of his collected works in korean, and the authors mention that they could not get volume 4. There's a South Korean website with the full text of KJI collected works, and the table of contents for volume 4 is censored and there's a note 'if you really need the full text, call this number'. Why does this happen, it's weird.
My research went way, way, way beyond the character limit so here's a link to it if you're interested: https://rentry.co/dk2ey
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