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2 Aug, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Rudimentary fact: The U.S.'s CIA & South Korea's NIS are like two peas in a capitalist democracy pod.

The National Intelligence Service (South Korea)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_…
“(NIS, 대한민국 국가정보원, 국정원)…the chief intelligence agency of South Korea…was officially Image
2/"established in 1961 as the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA, 중앙정보부).”

Central Intelligence Agency
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_I…
“is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, and ImageImage
3/"analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).”
We know how the CIA operates (b/c "art imitates life"):👇
4/A CIA black ops program, Operation Treadstone, turned David Webb into Jason Bourne. The question is: Does South Korea's NIS Defector Program train/coerce/condition defectors like Operation Treadstone did David Webb until they become Jason Bourne-like pawns in their game of
5/tarnishing DPRK's reputation as much as possible? The fact that the "South Korean government offers defectors $860,000 if they cross into the country and provide intelligence that improves the country's security" says that indeed it does.
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Socialist Art: "Woman Builder" by Kim Guang Chol.
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3/The proletariat are "working people". In the DPRK there are 3 main "classes" of people: Workers (hammer), farmers (sickle) & intellectual class (calligraphy brush). There is solidarity among the 3 classes & the WPK works for the welfare of everyone: "One for all & all for one." Image
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3 Aug
A Window into the Art of North Korea:
Meet the Prominent Italian Dealer Who Buys and Sells North Korean Art
architecturaldigest.com/story/prominen…
“In Pontassieve, a small town outside of Florence, Pier Luigi Cecioni sits on a veritable treasure trove: around 300 works of North Korean art, Image
2/"spanning paintings, posters, embroidery, and woodcuts, purchased well before the U.N. tightened its sanctions on North Korean export in 2017.

“My position is that I deal only with the art of North Korea, not with its government,” he says...“When I hold exhibitions of North
3/"art, many Westerners are surprised that North Korean artists even exist— Art has always been a great vehicle of understanding a situation that is usually presented only through stereotypes. I think that meeting through art, as through sports, might favor peace.”
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2 Aug
[From 7/15/18]
“A North Korean who defected to South Korea along with several others in 2016 now claims he was blackmailed into doing so.
Ho Kang Il, a North Korean restaurant manager and his staff of 12 women defected to South Korea after the National
newsweek.com/north-korean-d…
2/"Intelligence Service (NIS) coerced them.

"Originally, I was a cooperator of the NIS and brought information to them," Ho told South Korea's Yonhap news agency. "They threatened that unless I come to the South with the employees, they would divulge to the North Korean Embassy
3/"that I had cooperated with the NIS until then."…

"I had no choice but to do what they told me to," Ho said. He also explained that his employees did not know their fate until they had boarded the plane, believing they were headed to a restaurant in southeast Asia…
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1 Aug
“With the flow of information from North Korea fiercely controlled, outsiders have long relied on defector testimonies to gain an understanding of what goes on inside the secretive state. But relying on the anecdotes of individuals – all with different
theguardian.com/world/2015/oct…
2/"views and experiences – can also be risky.

In a report released last year, the UN accused the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, of crimes against humanity, and called for the case to be referred to the international criminal court. UN investigators had been denied access to
3/"the country, so the organization had instead carried out 240 confidential interviews with North Korean refugees living in South Korea, Japan, the UK and the US, including Shin Dong-hyuk, whose story was told in the bestselling Escape from Camp 14.

In January, the DPRK
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1 Aug
Q: Does art imitate life or does life imitate art?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imit…
A: Both. Art is produced by artists. Artists are painters, sculptors, architects, musicians, poets, actors, dancers & writers. When we aspire to become artists we start in school where teachers & mentors
2/guide us in the pursuit of our aspirations thru University level & beyond, which may culminate in achieving rewarding careers as artists. Art is an entirely human creation. It inspires & informs us at a universal level w/ a power that transcends ideology, nationality, race &
3/& language. Wherever “life imitates art”, then, it’s doing so in emulation of the original ideas of artists who created the art. At the same time, photography captures life in moments of real time. Nothing "resembles" life more closely than a photograph.
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