Comments on: Has Kim Jong-un had his wings clipped? https://www.policyforum.net/has-kim-jong-un-had-his-wings-clipped/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Mon, 22 Aug 2016 04:45:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: Kenneth Bohl https://www.policyforum.net/has-kim-jong-un-had-his-wings-clipped/#comment-6362 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 08:45:24 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=7996#comment-6362 I have often wondered if Kim Jong Un ever had wings. As an observer only (as opposed to a scholar) his mannerisms and gestures have always struck me as those of one who is being controlled.

]]> By: Edmond https://www.policyforum.net/has-kim-jong-un-had-his-wings-clipped/#comment-6036 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 07:35:52 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=7996#comment-6036 In reply to Felix Abt.

Transform it into what?

]]> By: Felix Abt https://www.policyforum.net/has-kim-jong-un-had-his-wings-clipped/#comment-5600 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 01:57:43 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=7996#comment-5600 Most North Korea observers believe that Kim Jong Un is in control. After having clipped the wings of the military and purged potential rivals he may be able to transform the country unchallenged.

Jang Jin-sung claims Kim Jong Un is a powerless symbolic figurehead in the hands of an almighty department of the Korean Labor Party. He also claims North Korea cannot be reformed.

Breuker who believes Jang Jin-sung’s version is echoing this in his piece.
A more thorough analysis of the upcoming party congress with a different perspective is offered by Professor Ruediger Frank: http://38north.org/2015/11/rfrank111115/

The dispute between the advocates of these opposite perspectives is important since the policy-makers in the West who are deciding on the future course of policies towards North Korea (engaging and a peace treaty versus more of the same old coercive policies with ever more sanctions) will be influenced by it.

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