"What life looks like inside North Korea"

[Warpy]

33. No, the military or another family member will get rid of him

and the spectacle of seeing their god is vulnerable will embolden people who have been crushed for decades. The whole country will be in an uproar as there's not only a political power vacuum but a religious one.

They've been sold the bill of goods that "godhood" was transferred from father to son at death. It looks beyond stupid to us, but they believe it because if they don't, they and their families will be slaughtered.

I can't look down at them for this sort of thing. It worked remarkably well for the Romans and for the European Divine Right kings.