I do think North Korea leaders would prefer a state of affairs where it could educate it’s own elite instead of sending the kids to Switzerland to get a real education.
North Korea’s military would like to have capable engineers that can produce working technology.
On the other hand a simple act like giving the population access to internet might produce a chain reaction that blows up the whole state.
Jang Sung-taek was someone in North Korea with a lot of political power. According to Wikipedia South Korean believed that Jang Sung-taek was the defacto leader of North Korea in 2008.
Last year the North Korean state television announced his execution. His extended family might also have gotten executed.
One of the charges was that he “made no scruple of committing such act of treachery in May last as selling off the land of the Rason economic and trade zone to a foreign country...”
It’s worth noting that Western countries did engage in policies to block Jang Sung-taek efforts to create economic change in North Korea.
I do think North Korea leaders would prefer a state of affairs where it could educate it’s own elite instead of sending the kids to Switzerland to get a real education.
North Korea’s military would like to have capable engineers that can produce working technology.
On the other hand a simple act like giving the population access to internet might produce a chain reaction that blows up the whole state.
Jang Sung-taek was someone in North Korea with a lot of political power. According to Wikipedia South Korean believed that Jang Sung-taek was the defacto leader of North Korea in 2008.
Last year the North Korean state television announced his execution. His extended family might also have gotten executed.
One of the charges was that he “made no scruple of committing such act of treachery in May last as selling off the land of the Rason economic and trade zone to a foreign country...”
It’s worth noting that Western countries did engage in policies to block Jang Sung-taek efforts to create economic change in North Korea.