[KS] Pyongyang Univ of Science & Tech (PUST) on BBC1 TV, Mon 3 Feb, 2030 ...

Frank Hoffmann hoffmann at koreanstudies.com
Sun Feb 9 14:59:34 EST 2014


>> Maybe the PUST is only something like the church in Pyongyang ?
>> (...) the PUST is rather creating future elites of the DPRK


Sure. Those for technology, mostly. As I suggested, _Gleichschaltung_: 
long-term, well organized dictatorships  do not have a separation of 
legislature and executive. If so, than only on paper, but in North 
Korea even that is not seriously staged. It is all the same. And 
organizations are not in any way independent either, they all follow 
the same directives. THAT then also creates the big setback for 
dictatorships: there is no feedback, no pool of live knowledge that 
gets renewed and that allows government and regional policies to be 
adjusted to real life needs. Twenty million rolls of toilet paper is 
twenty million rolls of toilet paper. Don't dare to get an influenza.

PUST is very nice to have, as it is extremely cheap to operate. In the 
1990s to 2000s Korean technology students would mostly go to Macao, 
Hong Kong, and mainland China. Probably they still do now. It certainly 
makes economically more sense to bring some educators in and have the 
students not leave the country -- that is far more safe from their 
perspective: no threads their students could become spies, complete 
mind control, and they get trained with the developing technology that 
is already in place in North Korea. When you do technology training 
what you want to have is an environment that combines theoretical 
education, practical training, and the later actual existing work 
environment and "machinery". That is what they have achieved now -- 
well, partially. But that is where they go. Since these days everything 
is via and about the Internet (and they are now also independent from 
China with at least one of their satellite nets, so they can't be 'cut 
off'), what they needed is a pool of teachers that bridges various 
other issues, such as technical language. Having PUST is the smoothest 
solution to have a technological development while absolutely 
minimizing foreign contact and influence. Knowing that half of these 
teachers must be spies (supposedly British and Australians mostly), 
they of course monitor them like little rats in the cage (as the film 
also demonstrated). .... So, however anyone "touches" that whole scene 
there, even us here discussing the topic, it always draws one down to 
those levels of human trash and disgust. Depressing!  

Isn't it?


Frank


On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 17:52:49 +0000 (GMT), levi nicolas wrote:
> Maybe the PUST is only something like the church in Pyongyang ? The 
> PUS is a sad place in my eyes, because I though that the freedom of 
> speech was higher there than in other places. It's seem to be the 
> same as on other places. For me, the PUST is rather creating future 
> elites of the DPRK who will manage the NK system keeping the 
> standards of the NK system. 
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Nicolas




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