re: #259 Blind Frog Belly White

Earlier I referenced the Weird History podcast series on Korea.

In it, the host/historian makes strongly the point that after WWII that North Korea was indeed better off than the South, which was mostly agricultural, and that dichotomy would continue through the Korean Conflict.

And given that, the leaders of NK since then have used that historical knowledge in the NK population to be able to sell the propaganda.

Given all of that, I strongly suspect that Kim knows that the ability to propagandize off of information from 60 years ago is waning.

So, Kim needs to be able to create a new story for his political/power apparatus.