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North Korea, the country synonymous in the West with missile launchers, cyber attacks, weapons and drug smuggling, all

held together by the cult-like dynastic regime of the Kim family. North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs pose a great threat to the peace and security of the world,

and I strongly condemn their reckless action.

Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.

For people within North Korea, the decades-long rule of the Kim regime has been a dystopian nightmare that it's still without end.

But there are people working to change that. In today's episode I speak with

So Kil Park of the group group Liberty in North Korea, an organization that helps

smuggle North Korean refugees through a treacherous 3,000 mile ramp to safety. But their work doesn't end there as they help these individuals adapt to life in what for them is a strange new world.

And as their name implies, Liberty in North Korea's ultimate goal is to bring freedom and justice

to everyone within North Korea.

The state of North Korea arose from the ashes of World War II when the Soviets occupied

North Korea and Stalin cast KGB leader Ber, with hand-picking a suitable individual to lead the territory.

The man he chose was an avowed Korean communist and hitherto unremarkable individual named Kim Il Song.

But to give the new man credibility, the fictitious backstory of his heroic past was created,

and very quickly a personality cult in the mould of the one around Stalin himself and China's Malcy Tung was born.

But whereas the personality cults around Stalin and Malcy Tung ended pretty quickly after the deaths,

while Kimil Singh's daily leadership role has since passed to his son and now his grandson, the long-dead

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