Music:
Epidemic Sound:
Anthony Earls - Clenched
Charles Holme - Change by Reversal
Charles Holme - Dark Dripping
Charles Holme - Recurring Anomaly
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Before Nightfall
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Covert Affairs
DEX 1200 - Echoes of the Unmasked
Dream Cave - Perjury
Eden Avery - Enter the Facility
Experia - Foreboding Whispers
Experia - Smoke and Ashes
Fredrik Ekstrom - Devils On The Doorstep
Fredrik Ekstrom - Haunting 02
Rand Aldo - Dusty Enigma
Ruiqi Zhao - The Detective's Story
Salience Bias - Art Against Agony
Artlist:
CK Martin - Underworld
SAINT-SAMUEL - Morphogenesis
Tom Meira Armony - Expect the Unexpected
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Armchair documentaries, almost weekly
Epidemic Sound:
Anthony Earls - Clenched
Charles Holme - Change by Reversal
Charles Holme - Dark Dripping
Charles Holme - Recurring Anomaly
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Before Nightfall
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Covert Affairs
DEX 1200 - Echoes of the Unmasked
Dream Cave - Perjury
Eden Avery - Enter the Facility
Experia - Foreboding Whispers
Experia - Smoke and Ashes
Fredrik Ekstrom - Devils On The Doorstep
Fredrik Ekstrom - Haunting 02
Rand Aldo - Dusty Enigma
Ruiqi Zhao - The Detective's Story
Salience Bias - Art Against Agony
Artlist:
CK Martin - Underworld
SAINT-SAMUEL - Morphogenesis
Tom Meira Armony - Expect the Unexpected
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Armchair documentaries, almost weekly
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00:01It's the mid-90s. Kids all over Europe are thrilled.
00:05They finally have their own Disneyland here in Paris.
00:08These two kids have come all the way from Switzerland.
00:11They have been begging their family to take them here forever.
00:14Now they're finally here. And it's better than they imagined.
00:17It really is the happiest place on earth.
00:20The park is buzzing with life. The daily parade rolls down Main Street.
00:24It's like they're in a Disney movie.
00:26And behind them, towering above it all, is the park's centerpiece.
00:29Sleeping Beauty's castle. Its golden spires gleaming under the French sun.
00:34At first glance, they look like any other family.
00:37Perhaps they are diplomats from East Asia, enjoying a day off in Europe.
00:41The siblings watch the parade.
00:43But their eyes keep drifting back to the castle.
00:45Almost like they're imagining themselves inside it.
00:48Maybe as part of a royal family.
00:51The thing is, they are royalty.
00:55But their life is no fairy tale.
00:58When the boy grows up, he'll have his own empire.
01:03When the girl grows up, she'll become one of the most dangerous women in the world.
01:07The West officials see Kim Yo-jong as one of the key regime insiders.
01:11Kim Yo-jong.
01:12Kim Yo-jong.
01:13Kim Yo-jong.
01:14Kim Yo-jong.
01:15Kim Yo-jong.
01:16Kim Yo-jong.
01:17Kim Yo-jong.
01:18Kim Yo-jong.
01:19Kim Yo-jong.
01:20Kim Yo-jong.
01:21Kim Yo-jong.
01:22持
01:48The border is armed at full wartime strength, on standby to open fire.
01:53Nuclear threats coming out of North Korea are nothing new.
01:56Kim Jong-un has long threatened to annihilate his neighbor and regularly flaunts the regime's growing nuclear arsenal.
02:01What is new is that this threat isn't coming from him.
02:04It's coming from her.
02:06Kim Jong-un's younger sister, Kim Yo-jong.
02:11The world has seen this woman before.
02:14In February 2018, at the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea.
02:18For the first time in decades, a direct member of the Kim family sets foot on South Korean soil.
02:24For three days, Kim Yo-jong captivates the media.
02:27Attending meetings, having lunch with South Korea's president Moon Jae-in.
02:31Shaking hands.
02:32Unlike her brother, she is not intimidating.
02:34She is not shouting threats.
02:36She is charming, soft-spoken, and diplomatic.
02:39For a brief moment, it feels like North Korea might be changing course.
02:43Maybe this is the start of a new era.
02:46A path to peace.
02:48But the Yo-jong people see in South Korea is just one side of her.
02:52Soon, the world will see the other.
02:57North Korea is a country built on control.
03:00Every piece of information is carefully managed by the regime.
03:03Outside the DPRK, we like to think that we're in control of our own information.
03:07But just as you're watching this, data brokers might be collecting and selling your personal data.
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03:52In North Korea, images and stories matter.
03:55The Kims aren't just rulers.
03:57They are chosen by fate.
03:59Their power is divine.
04:01Every policy, every decision, every act of the regime serves a single purpose.
04:06Ensuring the Kim dynasty's survival.
04:09Kim Yo-jung was born in 1987, or maybe in 1989.
04:13It's hard to verify.
04:15In 2011, Kim Jong-il dies unexpectedly.
04:18His youngest son, Kim Jong-un, is declared his successor.
04:22At his father's funeral, a young woman stands behind him, dressed in black, head tilted to the side, gaze lowered.
04:29She weeps like the others.
04:31But unlike her brother, nobody knows her name.
04:34Kim Yo-jung has spent her entire life in the shadows.
04:37Even inside North Korea, her existence is a secret.
04:40No photos, no official mention, no trace of her in state media.
04:44But that changes in the chaos of succession.
04:47At first, she blends in like any other aide.
04:50A quiet, dutiful presence in the background.
04:53She carries her brother's clipboard, stands at his side, and holds out a heavy crystal ashtray,
04:58so the chain-smoking dictator can flick away his ashes.
05:01To the outside world, she looks just like another assistant.
05:04But if you look closely, she's always there.
05:07Standing behind him at key moments, ensuring everything runs according to plan.
05:11Foreign analysts start noticing her presence.
05:13Intelligence agencies, journalists, and defectors all begin asking the same question.
05:20Who is she?
05:23For Kim Jong-un at least, she's a close confidant, the only member of the family he truly trusts.
05:28Maybe that has something to do with her childhood in Europe.
05:32Switzerland in the mid-90s.
05:36Two North Korean children enroll in a private school in the city of Bern.
05:40Officially, they're the children of diplomats, but their passport names are fake.
05:44Nobody knows they are really the heirs to North Korea's most powerful family.
05:48Here, they're just two foreign kids in a country far away, from Pyongyang.
05:53To their classmates, they seem like normal kids.
05:55Playing soccer and inviting friends over to their modest apartment.
05:58Going on ski trips, traveling Europe, and visiting Disneyland.
06:02A regular family.
06:03A regular family.
06:07Except they're not.
06:08Their mother isn't their mother.
06:18Ko Young-suk, their aunt, was sent to care for them in Switzerland.
06:22Years later, she defected to the US, where she appears to have been living in secrecy ever since.
06:27Ko Young-suk told the Post she traveled from North Korea to take care of Kim, his older brother, and younger sister when they attended this boarding school in Switzerland.
06:36And just like her fake mother, one day the two fake diplomat kids vanished too.
06:40No warnings.
06:41No goodbyes.
06:43Jong-un and Yo-jung are pulled from school and sent back to North Korea.
06:47After Yo-jung's stint in Switzerland, she studies computer science at Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang.
06:59In 2014, three years after taking over as supreme leader, her brother is forced to undergo medical treatment.
07:05During that time, Yo-jung takes over state duties.
07:08By the end of the year, her brother appoints her first deputy director of the party's propaganda and agitation department.
07:14A department infamous for controlling every image, every speech, and every news article inside North Korea.
07:20In 2017, Kim Yo-jung is officially promoted to the Politburo, the ruling elite of North Korea's single-party system.
07:27She now has a seat at the highest table of power.
07:30But her true talent remains in propaganda.
07:33Wherever Kim Jong-un appears, Kim Yo-jung is there too.
07:36Not just as his sister, but as his PR manager, his shadow.
07:40She sets the stage before he arrives and follows him like a ghost when he leaves.
07:44A year later, for the first time in her life, she takes center stage.
07:48The sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has become the first member of her family to visit South Korea since the 1950-53 Korean War.
07:57Kim Yo-jung is part of a high-level delegation attending the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
08:03At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she charms South Korea and the international press.
08:09And there seems to be a strategy to this.
08:11For years, Kim Jong-un has been perceived as a ruthless dictator, a nuclear-obsessed madman.
08:16Under Yo-jung's guidance, that image softens.
08:19She is carefully rebranding her brother's image.
08:22In 2018, North Korea suddenly seems to open up.
08:25She will be meeting with President Moon on Saturday.
08:28If the meeting goes well, some experts say the visit could lay the foundations for a possible inter-Korean summit between President Moon and Kim Jong-un.
08:37Two months later, Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in meet at the border.
08:42They shake hands.
08:43They laugh.
08:44Applause erupts on both sides.
08:46That same year, Donald Trump also meets Kim Jong-un in Singapore, a historic summit.
08:51The two leaders sit at a large table, signing a historic document, a joint declaration stating that North Korea intends to denuclearize.
09:00Next to Trump is Mike Pompeo, the President's Secretary of State.
09:04Next to Kim Jong-un is his sister.
09:06She stands there, silently watching as the world dares to believe one of its most feared nuclear powers might actually disarm.
09:16But something about her feels off.
09:18Her appearances, her gestures, her smile.
09:21They all seem a little too perfect.
09:23Every move feels somewhat calculated.
09:27And this is just the beginning.
09:29There is very limited, immediately available evidence.
09:33But from what we know, she fulfills the role of a communicator with South Korea and with the United States.
09:41But she was also tasked with propaganda functions and party apparatus.
09:47That's Ildar Daminov, a political scientist at the Central European University in Vienna.
09:52He spent years studying North Korea and its power structures.
09:55Yo-jung appears to be North Korea's top propaganda chief.
09:58Since she has taken over, the way the regime communicates with the world has changed significantly.
10:03It became much more flexible and it also went online.
10:07So there were multiple attempts to also leverage some Western platforms such as YouTube, for instance, to broadcast certain North Korean points of view.
10:15Under Kim Yo-jung's watch, North Korean propaganda has gone digital.
10:19We've already covered the bizarre world of North Korean influencers in a previous video.
10:23Link in the description.
10:25But Yo-jung's real role now seems to be that of the regime's chief foreign policy mouthpiece.
10:29And in North Korean terms, that translates to one thing above all.
10:33Threats and insults.
10:35In 2020, Yo-jung orders the destruction of the so-called Liaison Office.
10:39An embassy-like facility right at the border of Kaesong.
10:42A fragile diplomatic connection between the two nations that has been established just a couple of years prior.
10:48Her once polite smile is gone.
10:50Her rhetoric gets more resentful and insulting.
10:58In 2022, Kim Yo-jung addresses the nation in a rare public speech.
11:02It's the first time the North Korean public hears her voice in state media.
11:06The event is staged to praise her brother.
11:18He has a high fever, but never lays down to rest.
11:21Too worried about his people.
11:23Officials wipe tears from their faces.
11:25He has COVID, but according to her, the real culprit isn't COVID.
11:29It's South Korea.
11:30When South Korean activists send leaflets across the border in 2024, Kim Yo-jung allegedly orders a response in kind.
11:49Balloons floating back over the DMZ, carrying bags of garbage and feces.
11:53In October, she calls Ukraine and South Korea vicious dogs bred by the United States.
11:58And in another written statement later that month, her final words are just as blunt.
12:02There can never be a change of the line.
12:04Have sanction, pressure and threat stopped us.
12:07They have only made us stronger.
12:09If one is not a fool, one should not do a stupid act of expecting our change.
12:13North Korea never honored its agreement with the US.
12:18Instead of dismantling its nuclear program, it doubled down, conducting missile tests and open defiance.
12:24Meanwhile, South Korea and the US have long resumed their military exercises.
12:28In 2023, then-US President Joe Biden formally pledged military support to South Korea should a nuclear war with the North ever break out.
12:36North Korea is forging alliances of its own.
12:39In June 2024, Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a military pact, vowing mutual military assistance.
12:46Soon after, North Korea sent thousands of soldiers to Russia to support its troops in the war against Ukraine.
12:52North Korea is now actively inserting itself into a conflict that stretches far beyond its own borders.
12:57And while Kim Yo-jung hurls one aggressive threat after another into the world, her brother carefully cultivates the image of a benevolent leader.
13:04It's almost as if they switched roles.
13:07Or, as Sung Yoon-lin, author of the only biography on Yo-jung puts it,
13:11He's the bad cop.
13:13She's the even worse cop.
13:16In 2024, North Korea released a surreal propaganda video that went viral.
13:20Cheerful children wave flags.
13:22Factory workers clap and sing.
13:24Soldiers go crazy playing violins in an orchestra.
13:27While grinning female soldiers leap into the air, giddy with joy.
13:30Giddy with joy.
13:31It's a carefully staged and almost hilarious spectacle of devotion.
13:36The real North Korea looks different.
13:38It's a country where people are kidnapped, thrown into prison camps, publicly executed for the slightest defiance.
13:45A country that holds its people hostage within its borders, choosing famine over reform.
13:50Weapons over survival.
13:51Missile tests over food supplies.
13:53Nuclear threats over diplomacy.
13:55A brutally ruled nation, with at least 50 nuclear warheads at its fingertips.
14:00Historically, the Kim dynasty has always passed power from father to son.
14:04Kim Jong-un's health is a question mark.
14:06He's only in his early 40s, but rumored to have severe health problems.
14:10Likely due to his chain smoking, excessive drinking, and rumored heart issues.
14:14If something were to happen to him tomorrow, North Korea would be left with no clear successor.
14:18At least, no male successor.
14:22In recent years, North Korea has quietly been introducing another Kim to the public.
14:27Jong-un's daughter, Jue.
14:29She's been seen at missile launches, standing beside her father, eerily composed for a child.
14:35State media call her the beloved daughter, and the respected child.
14:38Some analysts believe she's being groomed as the next supreme leader.
14:41The thing is, Kim Jue is only 11.
14:44If her father were to die unexpectedly, she likely wouldn't be ready to rule.
14:48Even though women have taken on more visible, more authoritative roles in Kim Jong-un's regime,
14:52the country remains deeply patriarchal.
14:54Women face systematic abuse, sexual violence, and forced labor.
14:58Often at the hands of state officials.
15:0170% of defectors are women.
15:03Most fleeing to China, where many are trafficked or exploited,
15:06because escaping North Korea is nearly impossible.
15:09If a woman were to succeed Kim Jong-un,
15:11it would likely be one with the power, experience, and authority to do the job.
15:15His sister.
15:18Once a soft-spoken figure in the background, Kim Yo-jong has become one of the most powerful and feared figures in North Korea.
15:24Under her watch, the regime has learned to manipulate its global image,
15:27more carefully than ever before.
15:30But her power isn't just about controlling narratives.
15:32By 2021, Yo-jong has reportedly followed her brother's path.
15:36According to multiple sources, she personally ordered the execution of high-ranking government officials,
15:41simply because they annoyed her.
15:43But perhaps the most dangerous thing about her is that she is a direct line to Kim Jong-un,
15:48the one person who sits at the nuclear button and trusts her judgement more than anyone else's.
15:53No one knows just how far she's willing to go.
15:56No one knows just how far she's willing to go.
15:58No one knows just how far she's willing to�� what the book has been throughout the world.
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16:09The sometimes within the circumstances that she justices.
16:12Do, like she wishes her to avoid the problem,
16:14she wishes her a child around her and has been to her parents who follow her.
16:17They don't like she will be.
16:19Somebody came to her, so she was a poor man.