Introducing, from North Korea, Hwang Jang Yop, the "architect" of that country's governmental/economic spin-off from Communism known as "Juche". Thomas Belke has dedicated an whole episode of his book Juche to this man. I give merely a taste of what he said.
Who is, and was, this man, and why is he important? He was born in 1925 in what has come to be the town of the evil results of his work, Hamgyong Bukto, the far northeastern Nk state that houses incredible poverty to this day, as well as the infamous Hoeryong attentiveness Camp, among other atrocities.
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During World War Ii he is in effect learning in Japan. Then to Pyongyang for more schooling. Here he becomes a Communist. He furthers his studies of Marx at the Kim Il Sung Universtity, achieving acclaim as Pyongyang's number one trainee of and crusader for the Communist way. Then comes the Korean War. Off to the Soviet Union for yet more study. There he becomes doctor Hwang. Upon his return to Kim Il Sung's school, he is elevated to head lecturer of philosophy. Later he serves as that school's President.
More advancements follow. Chairman of the consummate People's Assembly for 3 terms. Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the consummate People's Assembly. Worker's Party Secretary for Ideological Affairs. Chairman of Foreign Diplomacy. Co-chief Secretary of the Worker's Party Central Committee. Vice-Chairman of the Fatherland Peace and Unification Agency. And from 1993-1997, Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
And in 1997? Last February we supreme the tenth anniversary of Hwang's dumping of the Dprk. Yes, he just leaves. After all the study, the labor, the educating of thousands of North Korea's young, and after contributing to Kim literature to the extent that he is known as the "architect" of Juche, the "self-reliant" religious doctrine of the Nk Kingdom, he just vanishes. Citizen to this day are not sure why.
The forever optimistic- some say naive- argue that North Korea is just plain evil and any reasoning man will eventually get out. But that doesn't illustrate why myriads of other reasoning men do not get out. Why this mastermind? Why now?
Others, a bit more cynical, desist that Hwang was about to be "purged" in 1997 because of his growing awareness of "the truth". Possibly a slip of the tongue or the pen had him in hot water. He in effect remains a committed Communist, they say, but he is scared out of his mind and fled to safety.
We cannot allowance the reasoning of the conspiracy theorists either. Not totally. Stranger things have happened. These folks believe that none other than the dictator himself set up the whole affair. The "escape", the "defection", the speeches after the "conversion." For those speeches were filled with warnings to the South that an invasion was in effect near. True psychological pressure being exerted by one who specializes in such things?
Mr. Hwang's proximity in the free world reminds us of how petite we know, and that the world is not a safe place to be these days. But then it never was. If ever the gift of discernment was needed, it is now. It has been promised to Spirit-filled believers who want it. I offer that as the prayer recommendation of the day. Oh to know the good from the evil! Oh to know the excellent from the good! Oh for the power within to select the excellent and not be article until it is ours!
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