[Decoded]: North Korean multilingual extraordinaire Jin Hui👇enrolled by State-run Sogwang Media Corp to spearhead English-language PR outreach via stylistic SNS Vlog. Pivoting fom Russian in 1st 2 Vlogs, Jin Hui replaces Un A, who was censored by Google, using Photo Album theme.
2/Conditioned Pavlovian Western media response: "North Korean PROPAGANDA now emulating SNS Vlogging targeting younger audience to burnish DPRK's image abroad." Look up "propaganda". "Jin Hui's Story" is a State-created Vlog, but that doesn't automatically make it propaganda.
3/By that def you'd have to concede VOA as being propaganda. But DPRK isn't a capitalist country using private enterprise & freedom of the press. A proletariat government controls production & the media, which isn't necessarily or intrinsically bad. If fact, US should emulate
4/Sogwang Media Corp to burnish its image abroad, you know, target a younger audience using SNS Vlogging, b/c under old senile Joe, USA's reputation is sinking like a stone. But wait - That would be "propaganda". Got it.
5/Jin Hui: "I think we will get to know each other better through further communication and exchanges."

Westerners never meet someone as extraordinary as Jin Hui, an elite DPRKers, by happenstance. Her invitation to "initiate a relationship" w/ English-speaking world via Vlog
6/is quintessentially Socialist. DPRK, yes, is "burnishing its image abroad", but every government does so, it's PR at the international level. To not do so would be derelict. The citizens of DPRK are more socially integrated than US citizens who are so bogged down in identity
7/politics, "wokism", cancel culture, racial strife, class division & 2-party political animosity that an American risks his/her life by wearing a tee shirt w/ the USA flag on it (unlike Jin Hui who wears her flag w/ love). USA is so divided in contrast to DPRK being socially
8/cohesive, ideologically united, politically one & nationally patriotic. And from this Socialist core a talented North Korean elite extends a hand of friendship to an English-speaking world despite the sanctions the Western powers have imposed on them. The DPRK has one upped US.
9/Imagine -
"Forever war" ends
Korean War declared Over
DMZ becomes an open border
DPRK & ROK become friends
DPRK rejoins NPT as non-proliferating member of the big boys club
USFK stay in South Korea
US-North Korea Exchange Programs
Americans & North Koreans can become friends

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5 Aug
"It would be easier and more favorable for the U.S. to rack its brains to make our nukes no threat to the U.S., rather than racking it to dispossess our nukes." - Kim Yo Jong
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2/as a nuclear state and we will agree to:
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* USFK and Mutual Defense Treaty staying where & as they are
* The rules of non-proliferation
3/Can you show me - an American citizen - the fruits of 68 years of: "We cannot accept a nuclear North Korea"? If you can't, don't worry, I'll show you👇: Image
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"It would be easier and more favorable for the U.S. to rack its brains to make our nukes no threat to the U.S., rather than racking it to dispossess our nukes."-Kim Yo Jong
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Why aren't you talking to Kim Yo Jong?
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@DrMarkPBarry Until Western policy accepts a nuclear DPRK, NK's nuclear deterrence is staying no matter what, b/c it's the US that poses an existential threat to DPRK thru regime change, decapitation strike & preemptive nuclear first strike.
There's a word for this: SELF-DEFENSE.
Look it up.
@DrMarkPBarry 2/This, of course, is reality, yet Western analysts & think tanks don't like REALITY. So they live in a fantasy world and delude themselves ACTUALLY BELIEVING:
*North Korea is safer w/out nuclear deterrence
* KJU would invade South Korea if accepted as a nuclear state
* Sanctions
@DrMarkPBarry 3/relief is DPRK's #1 priority (It isn't:
NORMALIZED RELATIONS W/ THE US IS NORTH KOREA'S #1 TOP PRIORITY. #2 is PEACETIME on the Korean Peninsula)
* Sanctions brought KJU to Singapore
Yeah, well, when your thesis is based on hypotheses that are factually wrong, good luck w/ it.
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"Preamble: The North Korean nuclear threat is an intractable problem that will only grow in scale & complexity unless North Korea dramatically alters the program’s trajectory."
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DPRK's nukes deter the threat of US preemptive nuclear strike, decapitations strike & regime change.
2/Paper👆lacks clear understanding of reality & why North Korea believes it needs to maintain nuclear deterrence to SURVIVE. It ignores DPRK's security concerns in the same 2-dimensional thinking that permeates most of Western analysis. This is more accurate: "The existential
3/threat the US poses to North Korea by preemptive nuclear first strike (what John Bolton recommends), decapitation strike & regime change leaves DPRK w/ no choice but to err on the side of caution & maintain strong nuclear deterrence to deter the US from carrying out any of
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5 Aug
GETTING OUTSIDE INFORMATION PAST BIG BROTHER IN NORTH KOREA
warontherocks.com/2021/08/gettin…
(Is as hard as getting North Korea’s latest stylish & creative Vlogs by North Korean elite, A-team member & linguist extraordinaire Jin Hui saying "This is the truth" past Big Brother in the USA.)
2/Commentary:
“Amb. Robert King…writes that North Korea’s efforts to restrict access to outside ideas and influence “reflects Kim Jong-un’s conviction that foreign media represents a significant challenge to his totalitarian regime.”
Partly true. North Korean Vogger Un A & her
3/YouTube channel were CENSORED by Google’s CEO. And just today Jin Hui’s YouTube channel, Sonamu TV, was “terminated for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines”. Like Un A, Jin Hui is a member of North Korea’s elite, part of their A-team in North Korea’s outreach to foreign
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nknews.org/2021/08/north-…
2/He says: “The people were isolated from foreign information and ideas and the elites got to stay in power.”

Wangjaesan Dance Troupe dancing to Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock is proof positive that DPRK studies & assimilates foreign high culture
3/from within its borders

The DPRK in reality isn't a hermit kingdom but a socialist nation following Kim Jong-il's maxim to "plant feet in our land, and lift eyes to see the world."
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