now the DPRK can enjoy a little rest for now

    • unperson [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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