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Amid escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States, Pierre Haski presents an unparalleled depiction of the rising prominence of Kim Yo-jong, the younger sister of Kim Jong-un, as her influence within Pyongyang continues to expand.
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00:00It really is more like a monarchy, led by the Kins, rather than a truly socialist country.
00:20When a country like North Korea is determined to get nuclear weapons, you can negotiate
00:30forever and you're never going to get them to give the weapons up.
00:36The North Koreans are trying to paint Kim Yo-jong as this fearsome, strong, bold, sometimes
00:42threatening, sometimes charming.
00:46Kim Yo-jong is the most powerful woman, not only in contemporary North Korea, but perhaps
00:52all of Korean history.
01:16So I think it's a real real part of the North Korean nation.
01:24The North Korean nation is the most powerful man.
01:27The North Korean nation is the most powerful man.
01:30They're the most powerful man in the country.
01:32That's not the most powerful man in the country.
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01:46In August 2022, Kim Yo-jong is the president of the U.S. President of the United States.
02:16Kim Yo-jong attended a forum celebrating North Korea's victory over an enemy, COVID-19.
02:24It had finally struck the country.
02:26She revealed that her brother had also contracted the virus.
02:31He'd been very ill with a high fever.
02:46The personnel and the party officials listening to her
03:16actually started to cry, and for the first time,
03:19Kim Yo-jong was affirming her position
03:21as the regime's second-in-command.
03:23It was a dramatic exhibition broadcast
03:25by the Korean propaganda machine.
03:30In less than 10 years, Kim Yo-jong had established herself
03:33as a major figure in North Korea,
03:35both promoting detente as well as reviving tensions.
03:39Her influence stems to a large degree
03:41from her close relationship to her brother,
03:43third leader in the dynasty,
03:45but also from her own merits,
03:47which have proved exemplary
03:49since she first entered public life.
04:03This is first and foremost a family story.
04:06It began on the 17th of December, 2011,
04:08when Korean leader Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack
04:12at the age of 70.
04:14His death triggered widespread scenes of grief,
04:17in keeping with North Korea's cult of personality.
04:21The power was passed on to one of his sons, Kim Jong-un.
04:25He was barely 28 years old and had no experience of politics.
04:29Kim Jong-un became the third supreme leader
04:32of this unique communist dynasty that had been founded
04:35by his grandfather, Kim Il-sung,
04:38at the beginning of the Cold War.
04:41Standing behind the new leader was a young woman
04:44also overcome by grief.
04:47A young woman unknown both to North Korea
04:50and to the rest of the world.
04:54American Korean newswoman with Associated Press, Jean Lee,
04:58was the only Western journalist present in Pyongyang in those years.
05:03At that point, I had seen Kim Jong-un in person.
05:09I didn't see any sign of his older brother or his younger sister.
05:14Never saw either of them at Kim Jong-il's side
05:19in the last year of his life, which was when I was in Pyongyang.
05:23And I was, at many events, with the Kim family.
05:29But I never saw Kim Yo-jong.
05:33The young woman in tears supporting the new leader
05:36was a revelation.
05:38Their father, Kim Jong-il, had kept his family a secret,
05:42particularly his five children,
05:44who were from three different mothers.
05:47In this patriarchal society,
05:49the succession of the dear leader was played out between brothers.
05:54At the time, no one could have imagined that Kim Yo-jong,
05:58the new leader's 24-year-old sister,
06:00was to play an increasingly important role in her brother's reign.
06:07She was kept behind the scenes for a number of years.
06:11That moment was very interesting for,
06:14not only because we saw this young woman,
06:17but also because they were just sobbing.
06:22And those are moments where you also realize
06:26these are children, that they are young,
06:29that they didn't necessarily have the composure.
06:34The young woman in tears gradually took on a supporting role
06:37alongside her brother.
06:39She was present on many public occasions,
06:41even though her actual role was never well defined.
06:44She began to acquire several functions within the party itself
06:48and finally assumed the position of number two within the regime.
06:52She could potentially even be called on to replace her brother
06:55in case of incapacity.
06:56This was a first within this regime.
07:01Lee Song-yoon, a researcher in the United States,
07:03is the author of the only biography of Kim Yo-jong.
07:07She has real power in her despotic state,
07:13governed by her brother.
07:15The two siblings visibly show affection and trust.
07:20I believe Kim Yo-jong has the full confidence of Kim Jong-un.
07:26And this is extraordinary because
07:28in the very male-dominated chauvinistic culture
07:32and society that is North Korea,
07:34we have never seen such a powerful woman,
07:38a woman who is a key member of the royal family.
07:45How could this communist regime have transformed itself
07:49into a dynasty, and to such an extent that people refer to it,
07:54without irony, as a royal family?
07:57Kim Il-sung, the founder of the dynasty,
07:59did not come to power because of his origins,
08:02but in the wake of the Soviet Red Army
08:05at the end of the Second World War.
08:08He had been a guerrilla leader in the anti-Japanese resistance,
08:12and had won the support of Moscow
08:14over other contenders for communist leadership.
08:19Kim Il-sung had to deal with the Korean War.
08:22It was the first Cold War conflict
08:24to involve both American and Chinese armies.
08:27North Korea managed to maintain good relations
08:31with the two rival powers,
08:33sometimes playing one against the other.
08:36The Korean dear leader derived great benefit from this.
08:40Kim Il-sung traced his own path
08:42and created a personality cult
08:44that was even more exaggerated than Mao's
08:47in neighbouring China.
08:51Very soon, his son Kim Jong-il was seen by his side.
08:54He was considered as the natural successor,
08:57pre-ordained to the role of supreme leader
09:00from a very young age.
09:02The family, the royal blood,
09:04gradually became the basis of power,
09:07all backed by elaborate propaganda.
09:11This became obvious at the death of Kim Jong-il,
09:14while none of his sons had ever been involved
09:16in the affairs of state.
09:18Jong-un served as the South Korean Unification Minister
09:30under two presidents.
09:31All dynastic power requires a founding myth.
09:58Kim Jong-il's leadership of Korea.
10:02The Kims came from Korean tradition,
10:04from the sumptuous setting of Mount Paik-tu.
10:08Mount Baik-tu, the mountain that shines
10:10with the history of the Korean Revolution,
10:13tells the great history of the leadership of Korea
10:15by Kim Il-sung,
10:17president of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
10:20as the days go by.
10:22Regime propaganda did the rest,
10:25highlighting the Kim family's affiliation
10:27to the sacred mountain.
10:30Climbing back to the sacred revolutionary mountain,
10:33Kim Il-sung said with deep emotion,
10:35whenever I climb Mount Paik-tu,
10:39I think of comrade Kim Jong-il.
10:43Mount Paik-tu is his birthplace and the cradle
10:46where he nurtured his courage.
10:50Mount Paik-tu is Kim Jong-il's mountain
10:52at the same time as being Kim Il-sung's mountain.
10:56It is the cradle of the Korean civilization.
11:01So the Kim dynasty has appropriated,
11:05taken over the symbol of Mount Paik-tu
11:08and justifies its despotic rule
11:11by propagating the lie,
11:14the myth that the family is sacred,
11:17they are saviors of the Korean people
11:20and are destined to liberate South Korea,
11:23which North Korea claims is a colony of the United States.
11:32Kim Jong-un, the third generation,
11:35also resorted to Mount Paik-tu,
11:37but he added a touch of modernity.
11:40He is riding up the snowy mountain on horseback
11:43with his wife at his side.
11:46But he carefully cultivated his physical resemblance
11:49to his grandfather Kim Il-sung,
11:51founder of the dynasty.
11:53He reproduced classic scenes from engravings
11:57familiar to all North Koreans.
12:03And the propaganda obviously includes
12:05the inevitable pilgrimage to the wooden house
12:08where his grandfather lived
12:09during the anti-Japanese resistance period
12:12and where, according to legend,
12:14his own father was conceived.
12:16The Kims, in trying to extend this hereditary succession,
12:26they rely quite a bit on their traditions.
12:31I mean, it's endlessly fascinating.
12:33And I have so many books that show pictures of Kim Il-sung
12:37when he was younger.
12:39And if you can compare them side by side
12:41with pictures of Kim Jong-un today,
12:45and they are exactly trying to replicate pictures of Kim Il-sung
12:49that the North Koreans are familiar with.
12:50The mother of Kim Jong-un and his sister, Kim Yo-jong,
12:58was the great love and favourite companion
13:01of their father, Kim Jong-il.
13:06Ko Jung-hui, a former dancer,
13:08was also the object of a real personality cult.
13:11Propaganda would always portray her as the respected mother,
13:20the most faithful and loyal subject
13:23of the dear leader, Supreme Commander.
13:28Ko Jung-hui had three children with Kim Jong-il.
13:32The eldest, Kim Yong-chol,
13:34was not thought strong enough to succeed his father.
13:38And Kim Jong-un was chosen.
13:41The collusion and trust between Kim Jong-un
13:45and his sister goes back to their school days in Switzerland,
13:49far from their parents
13:50and the isolation of the first circle of power.
13:55Cheong Song-chang, a specialist in the Kim family,
13:58was advisor to the former South Korean president, Moon Jae-in.
14:03Kim Jong-un, in 1996,
14:05in the summer of 2001,
14:08in Switzerland,
14:09was a mass-powering man.
14:11And I lived for a long time
14:11and I lived for a long time of capital.
14:12I experienced it as a project.
14:14I spent some time studying by Kim Jong-un,
14:15and Kim Jong-un,
14:16and Kim Jong-un,
14:17and I was also with the experience of Kim Jong-un.
14:18So I started to go on Disneyland,
14:22and I traveled to Europe.
14:24So I found a lot of experience
14:25because Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-un
14:27and Kim Jong-un were sharing
14:28many experience of the experience.
14:30It was probably here in the Swiss federal capital that the complicity between brother
14:39and sister developed.
14:42North Korea installed its largest European diplomatic mission in Europe in Bern.
14:48This elegant embassy is located in the international district.
14:52It was directed by one of Kim Jong-un's closest friends.
14:56North Korean activity obviously greatly interested the Swiss intelligence community.
15:01It kept track of all their actions.
15:04In this report, it was recorded that the embassy has acquired several apartments in the quiet
15:09neighborhood of Lieberfeld.
15:14Swiss intelligence authorities confirmed that a whole North Korean community lived here in
15:19these apartments.
15:21Drivers, a cook, and directing this staff were members of the family of the North Korean
15:27dictator.
15:30The Swiss Secret Service believes that North Korea was preparing a rear base in case the
15:35regime toppled.
15:39And yet in the mid-1990s, it became clear that this Lieberfeld community had quite a different
15:45mission.
15:47Two young children arrived from Pyongyang with a woman claiming to be their mother.
15:52For some time they were enrolled in the nearby school.
16:02Yueli Studer was then director of the Lieberfeld school.
16:06There were two children from North Korea.
16:15The one was a woman, but the one was not so long there.
16:20It is also relatively difficult.
16:23They come, they go, also with this young man.
16:27It was a very short time.
16:41The Pack family had just disappeared overnight.
16:45The children, now adolescents, returned to Pyongyang.
16:48Shortly afterwards, the couple who had acted as their parents asked the American Embassy for
16:53political asylum.
16:55It was later revealed that they were the aunt and uncle of Kim Yo-jong and Kim Jong-un.
17:00Today, they're living in exile near Washington.
17:05There were more than three children in the ever so complex Kim family.
17:09There were the two boys and the daughter of Ko Yong-hui, the favorite.
17:13But there was also an elder half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, who was not in line for succession.
17:19Kim Jong-nam left to live abroad, where he could remove himself from the family dynasty.
17:25But he became a problem.
17:31On the 13th of February, 2017, Kim Jong-nam was in Kuala Lumpur Airport in Malaysia.
17:37Surveillance cameras were filming him, when two young women rushed towards him.
17:42They threw a piece of cloth over his face.
17:45It proved to be impregnated with a deadly poison.
17:48Kim Jong-nam died a few minutes later.
17:51When arrested, the young women said they thought they were taking part in a television game.
17:57Direct responsibility of the North Korean regime has never been proven, but there is little doubt.
18:04One of the great sources of power or instruments of oppression in the North Korean political system is terrorizing the people.
18:13Not only ordinary folks, but party members.
18:17This was not the first instance of ruthless authority.
18:21John Son-taek, the all-powerful uncle, was Kim Jong-il's brother-in-law.
18:25He had also been mentor to the young Kim Jong-un in his early days in power.
18:30He was arrested and immediately executed on the 12th of December, 2013.
18:35He was accused of going to expensive restaurants and of having mistresses.
18:41It's not just a medieval, bizarre dynasty, monarchy, run by Kim Jong-un, of course, yes, but with his sister by his side, as if she were a co-criminal.
18:56By creating a vacuum around them, Kim Jong-un and his young sister found themselves firmly installed at the head of the state and of the party.
19:09The bond of trust between brother and sister was a guarantee.
19:16As advisor to several South Korean presidents, Moon Chun-in took part in all the dialogues between North and South Korea.
19:22Kim Jong-un's personal authority.
19:24Kim Jong-un's personal authority.
19:26Kim Jong-un's personal authority is diverse.
19:28Kim Jong-un's personal authority is a little bit different.
19:31But it depends on the way.
19:33Kim Jong-un's personal authority is important for the political authority.
19:36I think it would pursue to ensure this academia.
19:38I think Kim Jong-un's personal authority is principle-to-specation.
19:41It's to be the word that isn't our natural authority so.
19:43It's a proper authority, as I can't express it.
19:47The power of trust between четы-and-wurs and운ial authority is simply per se.
19:52Kim Yo-jong made her appearance on the world stage in February 2018 during the Winter Olympics
20:03that were held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
20:06Ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome the President of the Republic of Korea, Moon Jae-in.
20:12It was an extraordinary moment.
20:14The Olympic Games were being held on Korean soil,
20:17and the two opposing states had decided to come together as a single team for the occasion.
20:22The Olympic history as the North and South Korean athletes enter as one team onto the flag of the Korean Peninsula.
20:32The North Korean delegation was led by a veteran of the regime, Kim Yong-nam,
20:38but the real sensation was the presence of Kim Yo-jong.
20:43It was the first time a member of the ruling family had set foot in South Korea since the separation in 1945,
20:52and all eyes were on the leader's young sister.
20:58During the opening ceremony, she was sitting just behind Mike Pence, the United States Vice President.
21:05But when the American athletes passed in front of the stands,
21:09the North Korean delegation gave them an icy reception.
21:20Mike Pence later stated that he was especially careful not to look at the young woman.
21:26She represented a country with whom the United States was officially still at war.
21:31John Bolton, National Security Adviser to the White House, approved of Pence's attitude.
21:43I think Vice President Pence did the right thing in avoiding contact.
21:46I don't think there was any purpose to be served by it.
21:51This is an authoritarian regime that runs a 25-million-person prison camp in North Korea.
21:57So I think the Vice President actually was pursuing the right course of action there,
22:03and it was a real distinction of how he saw things, I think, from how President Trump saw things.
22:09For John Bolton, the South Korean President Moon Jae-in had plotted the whole thing.
22:20He wanted detente with the North, and he tried forcing the American's hand
22:24by organizing this show in the Olympic Games' stands.
22:27But it didn't work, at least not until a few months later.
22:31President Moon Jae-in wanted to have discussions between North Korea and the U.S. on the nuclear program.
22:40He was very much a sunshine policy advocate in one of its variations.
22:48And people speculated about exactly what the sister's role was, because we didn't really know.
22:54And I think it's a very convenient and even a very sneaky opinion.
23:03At that time, what we were trying to do is,
23:08to make the Olympic Olympics as a successful Olympic Olympics.
23:14If you do a Olympic Olympics and North Korea,
23:18if the Cold War gets disrupted, then it will make the Olympic Olympics.
23:21That's why, at that time, Moon Jae-in had the idea of an Olympic peace.
23:31But Kim Yo-jong's visit didn't stop with the opening of the Olympic Games.
23:36It was also political.
23:38As soon as she arrived in Incheon International Airport in Seoul,
23:42the dictator's sister galvanized South Korea.
23:46When it was announced, when North Korea announced that Kim Jong-un's sister would visit South Korea
23:53with all of 48 hours advanced notification,
23:58there was great excitement throughout South Korea.
24:02Wow, the princess is coming.
24:04Kim Jong-un's own baby sister, little sister, is visiting South Korea.
24:08This must be serious.
24:09Kim Jong-un must be serious about peace, reconciliation, and denuclearization.
24:15At last, peace is near.
24:21The North Koreans were received with great honor by the South Korean Unification Minister.
24:28Officially, Kim Yong-nam, the old veteran leader, was head of the North Korean delegation.
24:34But Kim Yo-jong impressed people by her presence alone.
24:38Kim Yo-jong came and she held her chin up slightly at the airport in South Korea.
24:48She knew cameras were everywhere and reporters were filming her, trying to follow her every move.
24:55She wore a smile, slightly imperious, I would say, but she held her head straight.
25:04When she was received in the VIP room, she, as she entered the room, just looked at two or three different spots like this.
25:16She did not turn her head.
25:18She did not look excited.
25:21She looked as if she were in charge.
25:24And all this comes from training.
25:27It was an historic moment when the female descendant of the Kim family arrived at the Blue House, the South Korean presidential palace in Seoul.
25:43This extraordinary moment was watched live by all South Koreans.
25:47The North Korean delegation was warmly welcomed by President Moon Jae-in, who wanted to revive detente with his fraternal enemies in the North.
26:03The image of this reunion was even stronger when North and South Koreans were seen cheering together for their common team.
26:12A real symbol during a game of ice hockey against Switzerland.
26:17Everyone was seen as a conflict in the Korean community.
26:20Everything was done to give the impression of brotherhood.
26:21It was premature, but both sides played along.
26:23It was premature, but both sides played along.
26:26Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-un, is that he wanted to see his face in Korea as well as he was in Korea.
26:38If the U.S. officials come to Korea and see him, it's hard to say that Kim Jong-un is in Korea as well.
26:47If Korea comes to Korea, Kim Jong-un, is that there is no doubt about it.
27:00It's hard to say that Kim Jong-un is in Korea as well.
27:09However, Kim Jong-un is in Korea as well.
27:14It's hard to say that Kim Jong-un is in Korea as well.
27:28The South Korean press covered Kim Jong-un's visit as if she were a rock star.
27:34The media heaped praises on the young woman whose every move was scrutinised and who didn't commit the slightest blunder.
27:42The South Korean leaders attempted to evaluate the personality of this envoy from Pyongyang.
27:48They understood that she was going to play an increasingly important political role.
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28:06I don't know what to say, but I've lived as a high person, so I've lived as a high person.
28:20I don't know what to say. There's no chance I can see.
28:32The propaganda campaign was in full swing.
28:45Even the least important South Korean television program had its stance, including the comparison
28:50between the handbags of Hyong Songwol, a North Korean star who was sung in front of the
28:55South Korean president, and those of the sister of the North Korean dictator, and it was
28:59concluded that the North Korean star had designer handbags that were worth a fortune.
29:14While Kim Yo-jong, the supreme leader's sister, was more political and played a more sober role,
29:18if North Korea had wanted to make South Korea forget that it was threatened by nuclear weapons,
29:23it couldn't have done any better.
29:29Lee Jong-min is a specialist of North Korea and Northeast Asia at the Carnegie Foundation.
29:35The South Korean press, at that time, was extremely, like, amazed at her level of aptitude,
29:45the way she talked with the president and other high-level officials, and there was this aura
29:50of this, while she's like the Madonna, you know, of North Korea. I mean, Kim Yo-jong became a very important
29:57psychological icon of the North Korean regime.
30:03The return to Pyongyang was triumphal. The delegation that had gone to South Korea had accomplished its mission,
30:11and following the rules of protocol, Kim Yo-jong returned to relative anonymity after leaving the plane.
30:18She was only beginning her ascension of the power structure. But the seduction campaign undertaken in South Korea
30:25made her part of the first circle of power in North Korea.
30:28This détente was all the more remarkable in that it followed a period of great tension over Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic program.
30:44A few months before this diplomatic breakthrough, which promised priority to the North Korean economy,
30:51the climate was, on the contrary, rather antagonistic.
30:57On the 3rd of September 2017, North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test.
31:02This was triumphantly announced on Pyongyang's television by Ri Chun-hee,
31:06a star news presenter who had come out of retirement for the occasion.
31:11A few days later, at the United Nations, President Donald Trump's response was of a rare vehemence.
31:35Now, North Korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles threatens the entire world.
31:44The United States has great strength and patience.
31:48But if it is forced to defend itself for its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.
31:57Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.
32:04The exchanges between the young Korean leader in Pyongyang and the unpredictable American president were aggressive and explicit.
32:12But signs of détente increased. Kim Jong-un had made his demonstration of force and could now negotiate with Donald Trump, the very man who had promised to destroy him.
32:23In 2017, North Korea returned and became a 6th nuclear test in January.
32:29I was Thanh-ha to destroy him.
32:30John Christopher, in September 2019, on North Korea on September 29,
32:32the North Korean war-14button was a nuclear-14-like ICBM, that is a nuclear-14b missile.
32:37After that, Kim Jong-un named what did not want to do?
32:40He called out the nuclear force, he called out the nuclear power power,
32:50So, from the position of strength,
32:54we are a strong country of nuclear power.
32:56We have a strong dialogue.
32:58We can talk about what we can't fight against them.
33:03We can talk about all of them about nuclear weapons,
33:06and we can talk about nuclear weapons.
33:08So, we can talk about nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons.
33:13We can talk about nuclear weapons,
33:16and we can talk about nuclear weapons.
33:19We can talk about nuclear weapons.
33:22All messages transmitted to Washington had to pass through Seoul.
33:26And for Kim Yo-jong, her visit to South Korea
33:29was the occasion to launch a new phase.
33:31She delivered a personal letter of invitation
33:34to the South Korean president to meet the North Korean leader,
33:37her brother.
33:49After the success of Kim Yo-jong's visit to Seoul,
33:53the first results of this detente between the North and the South
33:56took place in the Demilitarized Zone on the 38th parallel.
34:00This border zone between the two Koreas is a result of the Korean War,
34:04which took place between 1950 and 53.
34:07An armistice ended the war, but no peace treaty was ever signed.
34:11Panmunjong, a former village now in the center of the Demilitarized Zone,
34:16is the only place of contact between the two countries.
34:19And despite its name, this Demilitarized Zone is one of the most militarized places in the world.
34:25It was here that Kim Jong-un symbolically met the president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in,
34:31on the 27th of April 2018.
34:33This was barely two months after Kim Yo-jong's mission to Seoul.
34:37Kim Yo-jong was still active in politics,
34:39but in a supportive role to her brother, the Supreme Leader.
34:43hand-in-hand, the two Korean presidents crossed the separation between their respective countries,
34:58a modest concrete wall.
35:01It would have been difficult to find a stronger symbol than this place,
35:16haunted by the memory of a war that never ended.
35:31Legitimized by her role as her brother's confidante,
35:36Kim Yo-jong was omnipresent on official North Korean television.
35:42She accepted bouquets of flowers offered by children.
35:46She looked after all details of protocol,
35:49and she took notes during interviews.
35:52The South Korean delegation had obviously succumbed to her charm.
35:58And on the television in Seoul,
36:00the government spokesman paid tribute to her.
36:03It was very important to her,
36:06she and was that.
36:09It's very important to her.
36:11It's hard to have this.
36:12So Kim Yo-jong showed up by the original cross-cut.
36:14The Supreme Leader of the Caribbean's uh,
36:16was very curious about how she asked her.
36:18The Supreme Leader of the Caribbean,
36:19she had a lot of anger.
36:20He looked back at the parents of Kim Yo-jong.
36:21The Supreme Leader of the Caribbean,
36:23she seemed to be very proud of theellenz.
36:26The Supreme Leader of the Caribbean is an elite.
36:28She was very generous.
36:30I was very sincere, and very sincere.
36:35I was very strong and very young,
36:41and I was very strong.
36:44I was not a friend of mine.
36:49I was not a friend of mine.
36:53I was always asking for questions when I was asked,
36:57The period of goodwill towards Seoul continued over the following months.
37:08Moon Jae-in went to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital,
37:12where he was warmly welcomed.
37:15And once again, Kim Yo-jong was in the photograph
37:19and was carefully watching that all went as planned.
37:22During the third North-South summit of the year,
37:29it was she herself who welcomed the South Korean president on his arrival.
37:35The rapprochement between the two Koreas was, in fact,
37:39a prelude to an even more unexpected diplomatic breakthrough.
37:42Donald Trump agreed to meet Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
37:55It was an historic first and was organized
37:58against the advice of the Hawks in his administration.
38:01The Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,
38:03and, in particular, the National Security Advisor John Bolton.
38:12Nearly 70 years after the end of the Korean War,
38:15Kim Jong-un obtained from Donald Trump
38:18the recognition of the United States of America,
38:21a status that the preceding administrations
38:23had refused to his own grandfather and father.
38:26President, how's it going so far, sir?
38:27Very good.
38:28What do you think?
38:28Very, very good.
38:30Excellent relationship.
38:32Thank you very much.
38:33It was an exceptional political success.
38:36In Singapore, Donald Trump appreciated the company
38:39of the young North Korean leader,
38:40a man whose country he had promised to destroy
38:43in a speech at the UN less than a year before.
38:47Although everything seemed to separate these two men,
38:49age, way of life, political outlook and even style,
38:52they got along well together.
39:00In Singapore, the two leaders signed an imprecise statement
39:04that mentioned...
39:05So we're signing a very important document.
39:07The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
39:11Thank you very much.
39:12Kim Yo-jong was placed on the same rank
39:14as the American Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.
39:17Okay.
39:18Her presence near her brother was discreet yet effective.
39:23These images legitimized her that much more
39:26in the eyes of the North Korean public.
39:28Thank you very much.
39:36It's fantastic.
39:37Thank you very much.
39:38Thank you very much.
39:40APPLAUSE
39:40Although she had been the star during her visit
39:56to South Korea, she remained in the background
39:58in the presence of her brother.
40:01The family hierarchy joined that of the power structure.
40:04I don't think any of us could have told that she was his sister
40:11unless we had seen pictures and knew who she was.
40:14She behaved like a staff person
40:16and there was no indication of a family relationship.
40:21Kim Jong-un and he alone spoke for the North Korean side
40:25even at the most informal occasions,
40:27such as the dinners that the two delegations took together.
40:30She was at a lunch that we had the day of the negotiations.
40:36It was not really a business lunch.
40:37It was more informal.
40:40But I don't remember her saying anything
40:42during the course of the lunch.
40:45I'm not sure I remember anybody on the North Korean side
40:47other than Kim Jong-un saying anything at the lunch.
40:50So when the Supreme Leader is present at an official meeting,
40:55his officials visibly are in fear of displeasing
40:59the Supreme Leader.
41:02Kim Yo-jong is not afraid of her brother,
41:05but in an important public event,
41:08Kim Yo-jong would be out of place to speak
41:11unless Kim Jong-un asks her to speak.
41:18The goodwill of the Singapore summit did not last long.
41:22There were two other summit meetings
41:24between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
41:27The first in February 2019 in Hanoi
41:29and the second the following June in Panmunjom
41:32on the line of demarcation between the two Koreas.
41:35But the diplomatic process was at an impasse.
41:38There was no agreement concerning denuclearization.
41:41It was impossible to sign any new documents in Hanoi.
41:45Donald Trump's advisers had persuaded him not to do so.
41:48The Panmunjom summit had the feel of a dying love story.
41:51The period of detente was beginning to draw towards an end.
41:54Stepping across that line was a great honor.
41:56A lot of progress has been made.
41:58A lot of friendships have been made.
42:00And this has been in particular a great friendship.
42:02So I just want to thank you.
42:04That was a very quick notice and I want to thank you.
42:05Donald Trump had dreamed of a diplomatic success with North Korea.
42:09But he soon became disillusioned.
42:11He had run into the same problem as his predecessors
42:14in regards to nuclear weapons.
42:16Each administration believed that they could negotiate
42:20some kind of deal with North Korea
42:22that would be acceptable to both sides
42:25that would involve North Korea giving up its nuclear weapons program.
42:28And they were wrong every single time.
42:31North Korea has made multiple commitments in writing
42:34to give up its nuclear weapons program.
42:37But it never quite gets around to it.
42:40And as diplomacy failed, military tensions mounted.
42:44North Korea resumed its ballistic missile tests.
42:55There were at least 21 tests in 2019
42:58and a sustained number in the following years.
43:03In order to be taken seriously,
43:05North Korea had returned to a demonstration of force.
43:09Kim Yo-jong's role had also changed.
43:16The young woman climbed the ranks of the party and rose in power.
43:21And her rhetoric became stronger.
43:23In 2018, she had charmed South Korea
43:25by attending the opening of the Winter Olympics.
43:29But after 2020, she promised an apocalypse
43:31and the destruction of the imperialists and their lackeys.
43:35It does leave Kim Jong-un with the ability
43:45to hold down the fort at home.
43:49And also, when she is attributed
43:51to these extremely harsh statements
43:55against South Korea and the United States,
43:58it still leaves him above it, above the fray.
44:02The Inter-Korean Liaison Office,
44:06established in Kaesong in North Korea,
44:08was the location of this change in policy.
44:11This brand-new building, financed by South Korea,
44:13was inaugurated in September 2018 during full detente.
44:17The building didn't even last a year.
44:20On 16th June 2019, North Korea blew up the edifice
44:24and sent images of its destruction to the entire world.
44:30It was Kim Yo-jong who commenced hostilities towards South Korea.
44:34She even called the South Korean president crazy,
44:38and yet it was the very same president
44:39with whom she had initiated a détente the year before.
44:44And the cause?
44:45Balloons carrying tracts sent by North Korean dissidents
44:49who had found refuge in South Korea.
44:52The escalation of Kim Yo-jong's discourse
44:54is doubtlessly part of the construction
44:56of the young woman's public image in North Korea.
45:00The fact remains that South Korea was in a state of shock,
45:03particularly after having wished to believe
45:05in the fairy tale of the princess from Pyongyang.
45:09the conversation was in a source of power
45:10and the blackened satellite
45:12in the Korean Mac country.
45:12The message was made to keep up.
45:14The message was made to be made to,
45:17and the image was also moved to the administration.
45:19The image was made to have made to have
45:20in the era of Korean society,
45:22by the time being made to be in the world.
45:24We can realize that the emotional picture
45:24and the negative image was made to be made to hold,
45:28but we could see in many times
45:31and to get back to the expression of it
45:34the shock and the fear of it,
45:35and the fear of it,
45:36and we could see that all of these businesses
45:38The tone was set, in Pyongyang it was Kim Yo Jong who led the charge against the South
45:49Koreans and the United States, once again the imperialist enemies.
45:57She increased aggressive declarations and statements that were read on the state television.
46:03They were signed by the deputy department director of the Central Committee of the Workers
46:07Party of Korea.
46:09That was her exact title.
46:12Reverting to the traditional jargon of the North Korean regime, Kim Yo Jong threatened
46:17Americans with a retaliation that will make you lose sleep.
46:22To the South Koreans, who offered economic aid in exchange for denuclearization, she answered
46:28no one barters their destiny for corn cake.
46:38In August 2021, Seoul reacted to the mounting tension and announced that South Korea had
46:43resumed joint military exercises with the United States.
46:48These exercises had been suspended during the period of detente under Donald Trump.
46:53Kim Yo Jong then launched a bitter tirade against the United States.
46:58She declared that the Korean peninsula would never see peace as long as American troops remained
47:03in South Korea.
47:06And the former envoy to Seoul added a personal touch by deeply regretting that which she called
47:12the perfidious behavior of the South Korean authorities.
47:16The breakup was consummated.
47:25This official position, as expressed by Kim Yo Jong, was an invitation to recognize North
47:30Korea as a nuclear power.
47:34For years, the international community had vainly attempted to denuclearize the country.
47:40But today, experts realize that this will not happen.
47:46When you have a country like North Korea, determined to get nuclear weapons, you can negotiate forever.
47:54And you're never going to get them to give the weapons up.
47:57Was there a time in the past when denuclearization of North Korea was possible?
48:02I don't know.
48:03Nobody can answer that.
48:04I mean, Kim Jong-un would have to have his head examined if he were really willing to relinquish
48:10his nuclear arsenal after his predecessors, his father and grandfather, have spent half
48:17a century in building them.
48:19And of course, Kim Jong-un's legitimacy internally comes to a great extent from his decade-long legacy
48:27of having much further advanced his nation's nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities.
48:35Real denuclearization of North Korea is today an impossibility.
48:47But Washington was not ready to grant North Korea the status of a nuclear power.
48:56The strategic consequences were too important, including the risk that South Korea or even
49:01Japan try to acquire nuclear weapons in their turn.
49:08This climate of latent confrontation allowed the Pyongyang regime to justify a war economy
49:14and an absolute control over the population.
49:17And for Kim Yo-jong, it also created an occasion to impose herself as an indispensable figure,
49:23in times of peace as well as in times of tension.
49:28The North Koreans are trying to paint Kim Yo-jong as this fearsome, strong, bold, sometimes threatening,
49:37sometimes charming political figure.
49:39But is she ready to step into a bigger role?
49:42She still looks like that young woman who understands that she has a role to play, perhaps has those
49:47ambitions, but still has a ways to go politically in terms of that confidence and that sense of
49:56authority.
50:01When speaking in public, however, Kim Yo-jong displays an authority acquired over the years.
50:08Her rhetoric is without compromise.
50:10It is that of a leader.
50:13Kim Yo-jong's
50:29I would like to give the power of power and power to the power of power and power and power.
50:36I would like to give the power of power and power.
50:41But just how far can she go?
50:43Could Kim Yo-jong rule North Korea one day?
50:46Could she succeed her brother in the case of his incapacity to govern?
50:50If, for example, as persistent rumors claim, he has major health problems.
50:55In this patriarchal kingdom, the answer is, in all probability, affirmative.
51:01Kim Yo-jong is first and foremost a Kim, in the lineage of the Mount Pek-tu bloodline.
51:08If Kim Jong-un had severe health problems,
51:14if Kim Yo-jong had severe health problems,
51:18it would be very high for the future of Kim Yo-jong.
51:24In this society, Kim Yo-jong is a daughter of Kim Jong-il.
51:30He has a more competitive power than other members.
51:33So, with his official title,
51:37he is a two-person in the current country.
51:42He has a more competitive power than Kim Yo-jong.
51:47Particularly as Kim Jong-un presented one of his own daughters to the public for the first time,
51:52the nine-year-old Chu Ae.
51:55This symbolically occurred during an intercontinental ballistic missile test in 2022,
52:02when the young girl in red shoes appeared beside her father, the present dictator,
52:07dictator in a scene widely publicized by the North Korean press the Kim family is
52:15not ready to leave the political scene regardless of the outcome of the next
52:20succession a decade earlier another timid young woman was presented to the North
52:28Koreans and since then Kim Yo Jong has demonstrated that she is truly a red
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