North Korea's elite are often assumed to be the regime's most reliable pillar of support — granted access to forbidden information, material comforts, and proximity to power that ordinary citizens can only imagine. Dr. Jieun Baek's research tells a more precarious story: beneath the elite's public displays of loyalty lie deep anxieties about status, security, and survival, sustained less by belief than by fear and a lack of alternatives. Join Dr. Baek for a rare look inside the anxieties driving North Korea's ruling class.