When Soviet and Chinese archives were briefly opened, historians like Stephen Kotkin and Frank Dikötter were able to dismantle decades of Western romanticism about those revolutions using internal documents. North Korea is still a complete black box. Do you think its archives will ever be opened—or might the regime have learned the lesson from those historical revelations and destroy the records before anyone can see them? Will the world ever actually learn, with granular detail, what really happened inside the regime?
Michael Malice, love the podcast and I enjoyed The White Pill and Dear Reader tremendously. Would you consider tackling the behind the scenes operators that shape policy around the world in your next work? You know, the ones the average Joe never hears of till they make a mistake.
How does the NK dynasty end? Is Kim going to get Maduro’ed? Is the more democratic relative Yeonmi Park talks about going to be their Reza Pahlavi? Is there even any hope for the Korean people?
Also, what role does NK play regarding Taiwan as well as Russian, Chinese, Authoritarian Axis policy more broadly? Should we care, or are they a relatively minor player that is occupied by SK whilst America deals with the real problems?
That picture from New York of the man with the speaker defending immigration while an islamic nail bomber jumps on his back is a classic. Are we near civil collapse?
Why are govts doing this what is the end goal? it doesent make sense!
North Korea seems like the last surviving Stalinist security experiment. How much of that architecture traces back to Lavrentiy Beria and the Soviet occupation period? Was the Kim dynasty essentially built on a Beria-designed model of total surveillance and purges?
If the furtherance of Technology continues, will it enable the collectivist bureaucrats to oppress humanity, or will the autonomous machine superspecies simply eliminate us all before then?
Apologies if this comes off conspiratorial, but one of the things worrying me currently is the fraying (purposeful or otherwise) of the western societies along multiple axes, such that organised effort to change the system to a significant degree feels to be less and less possible. Is there anything to be learned from the way the traditional relations tying a society together have been destroyed in North Korea (for example, you can't even trust your spouse with your reactionary thoughts because you risk getting turned in) and how to prevent that?
When Soviet and Chinese archives were briefly opened, historians like Stephen Kotkin and Frank Dikötter were able to dismantle decades of Western romanticism about those revolutions using internal documents. North Korea is still a complete black box. Do you think its archives will ever be opened—or might the regime have learned the lesson from those historical revelations and destroy the records before anyone can see them? Will the world ever actually learn, with granular detail, what really happened inside the regime?
Michael Malice, love the podcast and I enjoyed The White Pill and Dear Reader tremendously. Would you consider tackling the behind the scenes operators that shape policy around the world in your next work? You know, the ones the average Joe never hears of till they make a mistake.
Kim Jong Un was outside of North Korea using a Brazilian passport, how many members of the Kim family are possibly hidden abroad?
Now that you’re a Texan, how are doing with learning to drive and shoot?
How does the NK dynasty end? Is Kim going to get Maduro’ed? Is the more democratic relative Yeonmi Park talks about going to be their Reza Pahlavi? Is there even any hope for the Korean people?
Also, what role does NK play regarding Taiwan as well as Russian, Chinese, Authoritarian Axis policy more broadly? Should we care, or are they a relatively minor player that is occupied by SK whilst America deals with the real problems?
Great to see you back on Michael.
That picture from New York of the man with the speaker defending immigration while an islamic nail bomber jumps on his back is a classic. Are we near civil collapse?
Why are govts doing this what is the end goal? it doesent make sense!
North Korea seems like the last surviving Stalinist security experiment. How much of that architecture traces back to Lavrentiy Beria and the Soviet occupation period? Was the Kim dynasty essentially built on a Beria-designed model of total surveillance and purges?
If the furtherance of Technology continues, will it enable the collectivist bureaucrats to oppress humanity, or will the autonomous machine superspecies simply eliminate us all before then?
Going by birth rates, South Korea will cease to be viable in a generation or two. Does North Korea invade at that point?
Apologies if this comes off conspiratorial, but one of the things worrying me currently is the fraying (purposeful or otherwise) of the western societies along multiple axes, such that organised effort to change the system to a significant degree feels to be less and less possible. Is there anything to be learned from the way the traditional relations tying a society together have been destroyed in North Korea (for example, you can't even trust your spouse with your reactionary thoughts because you risk getting turned in) and how to prevent that?