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In The Media
Kim Jong Un’s Troubles
Kim Jong Un’s challenge is to hold power in a world where democracies seem to be overtaking autocracies.
By Moisés Naím
Published on Apr 11, 2013
Source: PBS NewsHour
In a continuation of his broadcast interview with the PBS NewsHour's Ray Suarez, author and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím talks about North Korea's Kim Jong Un challenge to hold power in a world where democracies seem to be overtaking autocracies.
"It is becoming harder for him, for people like the North Korean government and the North Korean leader to stay in power. He can get away with it ... but the number of autocracies has been plummeting" in the wake of forces like the democracy movement of the Arab Spring, said Naím, author of the recently released The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be.
More unconventional leaders of democracy, people like Nelson Mandela in South Africa and Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, made headway because they were able to mobilize the energies, hopes, desperation and political power that were against the more dominant structures of power -- South Africa's apartheid and Myanmar's military junta, Naím said.
China offers another complicated picture. It has succeeded in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, he continued, but now has an emerging middle class that is placing strains and demands on the government that "are in many ways undermining its ability to be that superpower that people fear."
About the Author
Moisés Naím
Distinguished Fellow
Moisés Naím is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a best-selling author, and an internationally syndicated columnist.
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