The remarks of our speaker at the August 22nd meeting, Lindsay Lloyd of the George Bush Institute, suggest that any accolades for North Korea's current leader, Kim Jong Un, may be premature. As part of this dynastic regime- the most repressive in the world as reported by the UN Commission of Inquiry which Lloyd characterized as an indictment- each citizen is given a loyalty rating.
The remarks of our speaker at the August 22nd meeting, Lindsay Lloyd of the George Bush Institute, suggest that any accolades for North Korea's current leader, Kim Jong Un, may be premature. As part of this dynastic regime- the most repressive in the world as reported by the UN Commission of Inquiry which Lloyd characterized as an indictment- each citizen is given a loyalty rating. Those given the most favorable to the ruler are persons who get the best jobs and living conditions while those with the lowest ratings are among the 100 to 200,000 North Koreans confined to prison. Possession of a Christian Bible can result in a death sentence. There's nothing to suggest that followers of other religions would suffer a lesser fate.
International concern for the North Korean issue has ebbed and flowed over the years but has become quite prominent following the regime's development of nuclear weapons capability. Prospects for a resolution seem quite dim, But Lloyd's associate, Jieun Pyun, a Korean native, hopes that family members living in the two Koreas will be allowed to meet one another after more than 65 years of separation.
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