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grab Johnson it’s April 22nd and in
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geopolitical news there are very strong
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rumors that the leader of North Korea is
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a wall that he’s either passed away or
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he’s in very serious brain-dead
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condition which I I’m told is also a
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upgrade for that particular guy and his
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sister looks like she’s poised to take
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over what do we know about that
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yeah there’s it’s interesting now a
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couple of aspects on this worth noting
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now that there’s a lot of information
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out there that saying he’s as you say
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very badly damaged in one way or another
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and has gone in for some form of surgery
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now of course it’s a closed system in
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North Korea so we don’t really know
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what’s going on to counterbalance that
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because the information is sort of
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overwhelming everybody’s kind of
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assuming that he is indeed sick to
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counterbalance that South Korea is
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reporting that they don’t have any
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information that that’s true now I give
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a lot of weight to the South Korea
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aspect of this because South Korea
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there’s nobody more interested in the
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world in what’s going on in North Korea
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than South Korea because they still got
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the DMZ in the Demilitarized Zone that
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border there’s a lot of conflict from
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time to time along that border and
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including shooting and killing people
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it’s it’s not a safe area and so this is
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something where they’re finely attuned
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to this and I would know I don’t know
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this so if I’m not drawing from special
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knowledge but you’ve got to assume that
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they have a great deal of reporting from
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inside North Korea of one form or
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another whether it’s from the media but
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their capability to watch and analyze is
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superior to anyone’s in in my opinion
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maybe it’s certainly equal to the United
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States I would say on the one subject of
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North Korea now they’re saying there’s
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no information to confirm that they
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don’t have any reason to believe that
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it’s true so like I said I now take the
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reporting with a great deal of salt if
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you will just because of the South Korea
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perspective however that said let’s just
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go on and assume it’s true for the
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moment and what will happen because if
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it’s not true he’ll just show back up
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out of stage and be yelling at somebody
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or doing something looking at a rocket
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blow off so that would be
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you know nothing is nothing it’ll be non
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news item then so if it’s true as you
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mentioned the sisters wall position
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she’s been in the press for the last two
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or three years now for North Korean
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standards to have her be a public
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persona in this system is very
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significant
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so she’s clearly very associated with
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her brother in in running North Korea
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and that’s widely accepted so he’s been
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bringing her in now there’s been some
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argument and discussion what exactly she
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represents is she the power behind the
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throne is she the real brains to all
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this what precisely is she just truly an
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ally of the brother helping and I think
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she sees that that her bread is buttered
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by having him be strong and in control
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so I think that some degree and probably
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vacillates up and down is whether she
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kind of runs the show or bits and pieces
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of the show or she just is a passive
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adviser and trying to help him along the
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way and I’m sure it’s some combination
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of those all of those factors but she
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would be the heir apparent and if he
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does die or is fully mentally
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incapacitated and no longer in control
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of the country she will be the person to
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step in so then it’s a question of how
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it will unfold from there so really I
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would say there’s there’s basically two
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scenarios that you could see one that I
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personally consider them more likely as
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she will immediately she’s already in
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some ways stepped into that breech since
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we don’t know the real condition there
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of the president if I can call him that
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the dictator of North Korea it’s hard to
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say what what how far that has gone and
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if it how real it is at this point but
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there’s also a lot of rumors that she
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was the one that was kind of pushing for
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some of the brutal executions of some of
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these people that the brother got rid of
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as he was consolidating his position as
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dictator of North Korea and if you’ll
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recall one of the guys was executed by
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firing squad
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he was stood up in front of a
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anti-aircraft gun and they shot him from
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close range in there
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anti-aircraft gun which just you know
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turns him basically into a mist that
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floats away on the breeze so they were
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certainly making a political point by
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that form of execution and a lot of
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rumors and discussion out there that the
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sisters behind some of these more brutal
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ideas one of the things I would point
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out about that is is and a lot of people
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don’t focus on this but if you look at
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terrorism for example and these
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political murderers and things like that
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that take place lumping this violence
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all into one big group women actually
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when they they don’t tend to get
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involved in that stuff but when they do
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get involved they tend to be far more
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cruel than the men it’s an interesting
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little aspect some of the terrorists
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you’ll remember this shopping mall in
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Africa they got taken over in the leader
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of this group that was doing it was a
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woman and and some of the real very
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cruel things that she had these people
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do and things that she did personally
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you know executing mothers in front of
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children and children in front of
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mothers where men terraces come in and
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if they want them dead they just shoot
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them and it’s over with so the rumor I
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tend to believe that the sister was
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involved in some of these things because
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that’s not she would view the world so I
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wouldn’t be overly surprised if
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everybody has a healthy respect for this
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woman and they’re a little bit afraid of
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her so as I say my my personal opinion
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is that that plan a would be that if if
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if the brother dies was incapacitated
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she’ll just step in and take control I
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think she’s already got a lot of control
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of course the other option is that she
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spot for it and then if that’s the case
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what that means is they’re gonna start
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shooting in North Korea until somebody’s
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left in charge and you can almost be
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certain of a quiet a little bit of
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bloodbath around the top and they would
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need to kill the sister almost
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immediately because she would just be
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too dangerous to be left alive so as
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long as she’s alive I think she’s the
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frontrunner to take control if the
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brother goes away if they can kill her
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if there’s if there’s groups in
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opposition that want that are that
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capable of killing her
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then then I think you would see the
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bloodbath really take off until like I
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said until one person was left in charge
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but like I said really my personal
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opinions based on South Korean reporting
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there may be nothing there to begin with
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if there is anything to begin with I
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think it would be a fairly by North
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Korean standards peaceful transition to
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the sister and then my third theory when
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it would be the the pandemonium and the
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shoot-’em-up sort of stuff
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