Listening to WMAL (conservative talk radio DC) this am. They said N. Koreans aren’t even allowed radios!!
They said defectors, including high ranking military, are in shock when they see the outside. They spend their whole lives only hearing that their quality of life is the best in the world. Sounds like we should be smuggling in radios!!!
Prayers up for their innocent.
“They said defectors, including high ranking military, are in shock when they see the outside. They spend their whole lives only hearing that their quality of life is the best in the world.”
That reminds me of “Moscow on the Hudson “.
A Soviet performer, played by Robin Williams, defects while his group is in NYC.
When he goes into a grocery store alone he has a panic attack because everything is so strange.
There aren’t just cans of beans or corn but DIFFERENT BRANDS of everything.
When I was driving long haul I occasionally ran with a guy who used the cb handle “Mad Hungarian” who grew up under Soviet rule.
He got out as soon as the border guard started looking the other way and ended up in southern Illinois.
He said he had much the same reaction as the Williams character, that going from a system where everything was rationed to a system where there was such an abundance that stores received daily deliveries was mind boggling.
His biggest adjustment was getting used to CHOICES about everything.