The brief description of the 3 generation rule is that all dynasties will fail at the 3rd generation.\u00a0\u00a0 The original bright, smart, ruthless, driven “creator” of a company, empire, country will die – his son will live his entire life trying to be his father, and the 3rd generation will have grown up without knowing his grandfather, with no coping skills and no motivation to do anything expect get the hell out of his situation.<\/p>\n
Korea had been controlled by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II.\u00a0\u00a0 While everyone agreed that Japan should not control Korea after the war, the “who” and “how” was never resolved.\u00a0\u00a0 The Soviets installed Kim il Sung (Generation #1) as the postwar leader of North Korea.\u00a0\u00a0 North Korea followed the Soviet model for a Communist State and had a moderate amount of success recovering from WW II.<\/p>\n
In 1949, after the U.S. “brought its troops home”, Kim saw a military option to reunify Korea, which gave us the Korean War, which ended in stalement that has lasted another 60 years.<\/p>\n
Until the 1970s, Korea bounced between Russia and China, distancing itself from Mao and generally looking to Moscow for direction.\u00a0\u00a0 Having sided with Moscow, when the USSR fell apart in 1991, Korea lost its way, and China was not very interested in dealing with Kim il Sun.<\/p>\n
Kim il Sun, died in 1994.\u00a0\u00a0 Kim Jon-il (Generation #2) took over from his father.\u00a0 Without help from the Russians and alienated from China,\u00a0 Kim #2 ignored the economy, and focused the country’s resources in propping up the military, creating a basket case, which depends on food handouts and the threat of making nuclear weapons to survive.<\/p>\n
So now we have the third generation\u00a0 Kim John Un as its new leader. \u00a0 He’s only in his 20s, has only been involved with the government for about 3 years, and looks he he probably spent most of his life sitting on a couch playing video games.<\/p>\n
It’s pretty obvious he is unprepared to be leader, but the “system” needs a leader.\u00a0\u00a0 South Koreans seem to be “playing nice” in the hopes that this transition might lead to a better solution to the future of Korea.<\/p>\n
Regime change is always a risky time – lots of people often end up dead and\/or do stupid things in their quest to get their hands on the controls.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s hard to imagine things getting worse for North Koreans than the past 20 years.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe it is time for a Korean Spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The brief description of the 3 generation rule is that all dynasties will fail at the 3rd generation.\u00a0\u00a0 The original bright, smart, ruthless, driven “creator” of a company, empire, country will die – his son will live his entire life … Continue reading