There Is No Real Reform In North Korea

North Korean Reforms Are Smokescreen, Say Senior Defectors -- Washington Times

SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears more approachable than his late father, but despite a new emphasis on economic improvement, there are few signs of real reform under way in the totalitarian state, a pair of senior defectors working for South Korea’s most secretive think tank said Tuesday.

Former North Korean diplomat Goh Young-hwan said that Mr. Kim’s promise to improve the economy “has raised expectations of a better future,” but a new policy being implemented on North Korea’s porous border with China bodes ill for would-be defectors.

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My Comment: My contacts in South Korea and China are saying the same thing. Reforms .... and that is stretching it .... are minor and isolated. As long as the Communist dominated political mindset remains in the North Korean government .... aside from permitting a few small and private gardens .... nothing is going to change.