Privileged But Powerless

In this episode, Dr. Victor Cha and Dr. Jieun Baek discussed her new book, Privileged but Powerless: How North Korean Elite Grievances Reveal the Regime’s Greatest Weakness, and examined how grievances among North Korea’s elites may shape the regime’s future stability and security, while also exploring new approaches to addressing the North Korean threat.

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Privileged But Powerless is an episode from The Impossible State by CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies.

This episode is 35:07 long.

This episode was published on May 12, 2026.

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