The Propaganda Game Page #8

is 'I am in charge.

Don't mistake that anybody else'...

because for many months before

his execution,

people thought that he was

the number two in power.

It was kind of common expectation,

that in a few years' time,

Kim Jong-un would remove

dignitaries and top officials

from his father's era,

and would replace them with young

or at least different people.

This is exactly what happened.

Nobody thought that

it would happen so fast

and in such a dramatic manner.

Sometimes it's the king

who gets killed,

but more frequently

it's the regent.

A wicked political careerist,

trickster and traitor of all ages,

Jang Song-thaek was condemned

in the name of the Revolution

and the People.

Until then, we thought of him

as a patriot,

as the most loyal person

to our Generalissimo.

That's why all the Korean people

were shocked

at this news.

So we thought that

he would be near our Marshal,

assist him in many affairs,

but, it was so sudden for us

to find out his treachery.

It's not only treachery

to our Generalissimo

to our Marshal Kim Jong-un,

it's treachery to the whole

Korean people.

So that's why we couldn't

be patient about it.

- Were you angry?

- Yes, of course.

- Everybody?

- Everybody.

When we went to the North Korean TV

to get archive footage,

they told us they needed to erase

the traitor Jang Song-thaek first.

Some people have mentioned that

he was corrupted by the Chinese.

Have you heard about this?

- Yeah, I think that's

the indirect accusation.

- The uncle is believed

to be an advocate

of Chinese style reform.

His uncle has been

very instrumental in pursuing

relations with China,

including trade

and economic ties with China.

When Mao died the Chinese Government

made a huge decision,

they reformed the old system

and tried something new.

A major feature

of the new system was

to introduce more market

based mechanism into the old system.

China gradually realized

that private economy

is very important for China.

China also made this reform

that communist society countries

can allow the private economy

to serve for these countries.

China changed!

Mao was betrayed

by their own comrades!

Stalin was betrayed

by their own comrades!

Vietnam, a country

that suffered so much

under U.S. invasion

is now a full capitalist country!

So, could it happen tomorrow

to North Korea? Yes.

They are humans also.

One day, the poison of capitalism

could enter this country,

in 50 or 100 years.

How come

a Coca-Cola

sign got into North Korea?

Oh, really?

Oh!

Yes, yes.

This has an easy explanation.

Normally, we don't have enough

fridges by national production,

so we import them from China.

And then, from China

it comes already branded like that.

Someone like that is always useful.

It is such a closed regime,

that now have found someone

who facilitates for them

coming in and out.

Obviously there is money involved,

he facilitates the entrance

of hard currency...

We still have many problems.

We know that.

We are working on that

I myself play my role,

to try to improve it

by bringing more foreign investment,

bringing more technology,

and teaching our state companies

how to be more efficient.

So we are at the University,

which seems brand new.

Everything is just

like out of the box.

And curiously, all of the computers

are Hewlett-Packard.

- And where did you buy this?

- That's a secret.

That's a secret.

Otherwise Americans will know

how we go around the blockade.

The blockade is useless.

Useless embargo.

He is a fantastic tool

for propaganda.

He is a Westerner who goes there,

who puts on his uniform

with all his medals,

and he sings to Kim Jong-il,

he sings to Kim Il-sung,

And he knows it by heart...

He's a great asset!

You know, I have been living during

the times of the Arduous March.

I came to the Motherland, I know

what was our situation

back then, in the '90s.

So hard,

we didn't have anything.

But, after witnessing

the transformation of the Republic

under our Marshal Kim Jong-un,

I was so surprised.

These centres, our Republic

are becoming the envy of the world.

So if we show them in DPRK,

how is this country,

they want to live like in DPRK.

When I go to talk

to the universities, in Spain,

many times to give a conference,

more than 500 people,

600 people come to hear me

and then I talk.

Why and how we develop

our socialist system.

And they become very interested

and followers

of our great leaders.

So we could say that DPRK

is becoming

the centre of the world.

You are really lucky!

He dresses as Superman,

he acts like Superman,

he believes he is Superman,

but he isn't.

That's it. That's Alejandro.

- Today he made it.

- Beautiful.

- Thank you.

- Very nice.

I still have so many questions...

Who benefits from the status quo?

What will the future bring

for these people?

And again

where is the money coming from?

- People always ask me

why North Korea still exists,

and I think it exists because

nobody wants it to collapse.

The Chinese keep it going

because they like

having a communist ally buffer zone

on their border.

The Chinese policy

consists of maintaining

its complicated

North Korean ally alive.

- Making North Korea reliant

on China helps China keep

that Korea card in their hands.

America, you need me

to deal with North Korea.

China's main priority

is the development of its country

the last thing they need

is conflict.

- It's also destabilizing

for China to be worrying

about a nuclear North Korea.

The Chinese do not want

the regime to fall,

because they don't want to have

American soldiers at their border.

- I believe that they fear

that having a unified Korea

will harm China.

But it won't.

It will actually be

a benefit to China.

Because they won't have

to worry about

this dictatorship that they're

constantly having to bail out,

that who knows

what Kim Jong-un is going to do.

So I think the Chinese Government

have lots of frustration

about what is going on

in North Korea.

- And, in a way, that's part

of the China-US kind of rivalry

in the region.

It's not ready to give this away

we want something in return.

China is the enemy

of the United States.

And what the U.S. want is obviously

to maintain its position in Asia

and that part of the Pacific,

and not to have

their power contested.

United States is probably

the only pro-unification country.

But I would not bet on that

because if the country is unified

it would be difficult to justify

the presence

of the U.S. forces in Korea.

The United States

can continue to sell weapons

to South Korea and to Japan.

Russia doesn't want a unified Korea,

which would strengthen

the American position in the region.

Let's assume a unified Korea

will be essentially

an enlarged version of South Korea.

- The Japanese keep it going

because they are afraid

of the economic and military power

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