(h/t to Leonid Petrov) Aidan Foster-Carter wrote an interesting article for the Asia Times. Below is the last paragraph:
Even in Pyongyang the mask is slipping. The WPK conference and subsequent military parade seem to have passed off smoothly, but dissent is growing. One recent visiting group (which included a Korean-speaker) heard a full-scale row between their guides – it was evening, and drink had been taken – as to what right Kim Jong-eun had to be foisted on them as leader. That is still dangerous talk; but many more will be thinking it. The young general has much to prove, and may not have long to do so. Interesting times.
The full article is well worth reading here:
For the Kims, the weakest link is family
Asia Times
Aidan Foster-Carter
10/22/2010
It begun the same here in the former Czechoslovak Socialistic Republic. First there were people whispering to each other their doubts. Then there was rising count of brave people daring to say aloud here and there what the others were only thinking silently. Then there were demonstrations – once per year, but it was rapidly growing. And then came the November 1989 with it’s velvet revolution…