Jonathan Cheng
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201 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 1 Jun
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But there is a possibility that at a certain point, you do start to believe your own legend.
I don't know whether that's the case for him.
I haven't had a chance to speak with him.
But I would imagine that he is able to hold in tension this idea that he needs to serve as a messianic figure on his own.
But of course,
He must also be aware of his own frailties and of his own mortality as well.
As much as he may want his people to believe that he is a deity of sorts, he too knows that he is flesh and blood and that it is just a matter of time for him as well.
Well, I think he is a risk taker.
Kim Il-sung was very good at what he did.
North Korea was devastated during the Korean War.
It was surrounded on all sides by major world powers, including the USSR and the People's Republic of China.
He was very skillful in playing off Mao and Stalin.
And then you see his son, Kim Jong Il, also be very masterful about this as well.
And he really brought North Korea into the age of a nuclear program and a missile program.
But it's really Kim Jong Un, the current leader, who has really stepped on the accelerator.
And so we've seen him preside over a nuclear and missile program that is truly quite extraordinary.
I think North Korea is, like it or not,
an established nuclear state.
And so I think that that has effectively insulated North Korea from external threats.
I think that any leader that may ever set foot in the Oval Office would be very, very, very, very hesitant to consider any sort of military movement on North Korea.
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