[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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