TOKYO — Last Sunday, a crowd of young North Koreans marched through a square in their capital city. They brandished red flags and called for a higher standard of living. But they also carried placards glorifying leader Kim Jong Il, and only a day earlier, they had attended an ideology seminar at which they pledged their loyalty to the current social order.
As leaders in other authoritarian countries fall, flee or fight to stay in power, the Kim family has retained its unequivocal control, including taking quiet steps to broaden the power of heir apparent Kim Jong Eun. Though some experts note public disenchantment over food shortages and inflation, the Kims — backed by the military, deified by propagandists, enriched by what little money flows into the country — still exercise muscular authority in the places that matter.
“Let’s unite around the General Kim with loud steps,” read a front-page editorial in last week’s state-run newspaper, in an apparent reference to Kim Jong Eun. “Victory is ours.”
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