Kim Jong Nam has revealed more about the rule of Kim Jong Eun and his view of the future of North Korea in previously unreleased e-mails between he and Tokyo Shimbun editor Yoji Komi .<\/p>\n
\u201cIn that young man\u2019s expression I can see neither the mission nor the prudence of a man who has become the successor to a troubled country like North Korea, nor the expression of a man worrying about a future vision for the state,\u201d Kim is quoted as saying in one of the correspondences.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn North Korea, the amount people who are earning money have to pay in bribes to high-ranking officials in order to survive is rising. A corrupt system like this absolutely will collapse. It reminds me of the Soviet Union right before it collapsed,\u201d he reportedly goes on. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe people\u2019s trust in the North Korean leadership collapsed thanks to the currency redenomination,\u201d he also comments in an e-mail dated December 13th, shortly before the death of Kim Jong Il on the 17th. \u201cAn ageing leader, an inexperienced successor and a sunk economy\u2026 nations surrounding North Korea can\u2019t help seeing it as dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNorth Korea passed responsibility onto Party Planning and Finance head Park Nam Ki and executed him, but the people all know perfectly well that the currency redenomination could not have been done by a mere cadre,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n
Kim also offers a withering critique of the North Korean regime\u2019s propagandist media in a November exchange, saying of Workers\u2019 Party publication Rodong Shinmun, which is now available in print and online in both Korean and English, \u201cThey don\u2019t have enough paper to print it so people can\u2019t read it. For the electronic version you need to have a computer, but how many North Korean people actually have one\u2026 and even if they do, there is no electricity so how are they going to use it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The formerly unreleased set of e-mails are to be officially released by Japanese monthly magazine Bungeishunju in its March edition, but were revealed by South Korean daily newspaper Donga Ilbo today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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