#317 - North Korean Military Defector EXPOSES Kim Jong Un & “1984” Spy Program | Hyunseung Lee

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(***TIMESTAMPS in Description Below) ~ Hyun-seung Lee is a former DPRK businessman and chair of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League branch in Dalian, China. A series of purges by Kim Jong Un forced him and his entire family to defect in late 2014, making their way first to South Korea then to the United States. Lee now works as a director for One Korea Network and a fellow of North Korean studies at the Global Peace Foundation, and he has interned with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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****TIMESTAMPS****

00:00 – Indoctrination, Anti-West, Kim Jong Un, Juche, Childhood Brainwashing

08:23 – No Ownership, Rare Foods, Japan Trade Ban, US Defectors, Forced Labor

20:53 – Community Control, Caste System, Military, Regime Worship, Family Life

30:51 – Bible Ban, Dual Lives, Political Identity, Child Labor, Moral Indoctrination

40:04 – Limited Electricity, Food Inequality, Family Reunion, Pyongyang Christianity

51:07 – Religion Ban, Poverty, Illegal Income, Bribery, Soviet Support, Exports

01:02:16 – Labor Exports, Spies, Hidden Dissent, Artist School

01:14:14 – Self-Criticism, No Privacy, Peer Surveillance

01:23:41 – MP3 Ban, Rural Punishment, American Music

01:34:31 – Rodman Visit, Record-Keeping, Cheap Sports, South Park

01:43:02 – Golf Ban, Border Traps, Prison Babies, Embassy Torture

01:55:29 – China Support, Internet Censorship, Event Control

02:05:32 – Coup Impossible, Outside Info, Subversion, Capitalism Exposure

02:15:12 – Anti-Capitalist TV, Kim Propaganda, Lies About Un

02:24:27 – Power Struggle, Economic Study, Human Rights Atrocities

02:37:20 – Starvation, Bugged Homes, U.S. Currency

02:45:45 – Songun, Military-First Policy

02:52:45 - Next phase of story

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Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 317 - Hyunseung Lee

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