The whole point of the military-first policy was not so much to whip up support for the military as to de-ideologize the economic sector, to make it … - Brian Reynolds Myers

Few things are more important to Pyongyang than its propaganda apparatus. Even when the rest of the nation came to a standstill in the mid-1990s, it never missed a beat.

"What belongs together, is growing together again," Willy Brandt said in 1989. The formulation implies a more balanced and grass-rootsy process than actually ensued in Germany — or is likely to take place here. Koreans belong together and will someday grow back together. But if the South doesn’t take the upper hand in training and guiding that growth, the North will.

Koreans in general are very generous about misrepresentations when it’s another Korean doing the misrepresenting.