“The North Korean elite does have some sources of hope. The elite itself remains, on the surface at least, remarkably united. The lack of a civil society and very strong social control makes the emergence of resistance difficult.”

— Andrei Lankov

The Folly of an Inter-Korean Confederation (October 2015)

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Russian academic 1963

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