Former North Korean spy, Kim Hyun-hee gave unprecedented insight into the leadership regime of North Korea in an exclusive interview, early this week. As a spy operating for the North Korean regime, Hyun-hee blew up a civilian South Korean jet, killing all 115 passengers in 1987. She was later captured and tried to commit suicide by drinking cyanide. The former spy was given a death sentence for the attacks.

Huyn-hee told the ABC:

He’s struggling to gain complete control over the military and to win their loyalty.

That’s why he’s doing so many visits to military bases, to firm up support. He’s also using the nuclear program as a bargaining chip for aid, to keep the public behind him.

North Korea is a not a state, it’s a cult.

North Korea is using its nuclear programme to keep its people in line and to push South Korea and the United States for concessions

Hyun-hee has come out from hiding to shed light on North Korea’s government, and its “inexperienced” leader, claiming that Jong Un is struggling to gain control over the military.

Hyun-lee recalled her time growing up in North Korea, saying:

In North Korea, I was taught that our [former] leader Kim Il-sung was a god. You were taught to put him before your own parents. You learn from early childhood to say ’Thank you, Great Leader’ for everything.

And if you said the wrong thing, even if it was a slip of the tongue, you would end up in the gulag.

She was pardoned after South Korean government said she was a victim of the Kim cult.

[Source: The Sydney Morning Herald]