By: Shim Jae Hoon
Living in Seoul just an hour’s drive from the North Korean border - armed to the teeth with nuclear bombs and intercontinental missiles that can reach all parts of the United States - can certainly be unnerving, to say the least. But it often feels doubtful how much South Koreans, indeed the rest of the world, appreciate the danger posed by the roguish North Korean regime.
Now we have a book expertly narrating how the Kim Jong Un regime operates, how it controls its hapless people, how it uses spurious revolutionary legends to justify its dynastic rule, and who can next be in line in this perpetually evil dynasty.
Sung-Yoon Lee, author of the book, is a Korea specialist at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington. A longtime professor of modern Korean History at Fletcher School of Tufts University, he has lectured and written extensively on Korean issues, of both North and South. His latest book, as the title indicates, focuses on Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of top leader Kim Jong Un who often generates global headlines with her sulfurous comments on US and South Korean leaders. (She once called South Korean President Moon a “dumb bull head” and US President Joe Biden a “dotard”)…
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