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Department. This has created a seismic shift in U.S. policy and
approaches towards the CCP, which has been continued to an
extent by the current administration.

Many in the Chinese government and among its people
despise North Korea and consider it to be an annoyance at
best. Yet, for geopolitical reasons, it simultaneously props it
up. The CCP does not want a U.S.-aligned, unified Korea on
its border.

Kim Jong-Un has publicly denounced China and its “impure
Communism,” even as Kim Jong-Un consults with Chairman
Xi. It should be further noted that the North Korean
government has failed to suppress the spontaneous markets
inside North Korea, which form the core of the real economy
inside this most impoverished country. Benefiting from the
much stricter monitoring and control of men, it is mostly
women who help these markets to flourish.

Conclusion: Light for North Korea

Despite the darkness caused by the Kim dynasty, I do not
believe that it can stand for a long period of time by historical
proportions. A regime so corrupt, oppressive, and wicked
must fail over time.

Hence, I retain optimism and hope that someday the Kim
dynasty will end and Korea will be unified once again. How
exactly this would happen and in what time frame, I am
uncertain. That it will happen, I am confident.

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