Posted on 07/02/2015 12:14:10 PM PDT by detective
As a schoolgirl in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was forced to watch executions, denounce her friends for fabricated transgressions and dig tunnels in case of a nuclear attack.
But Lee and her classmates grew up convinced they lived in the "greatest nation on earth" run by a benevolent god-like leader whom they loved in the way many children love Santa Claus.
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Every time Communists and socialists have taken over the results have been the same. There are secret police who terrorize ordinary citizens. There is large scale hunger and starvation. There is a military who kill their own people. There is human suffering and human misery.
From the former Soviet Union to Eastern Europe to China to Cuba to Cambodia the results have been the same.
But that is ridiculous! OUR DEAR LEADER has no dirt on him or our free press would tell us so!
There is no secret police unless it's against wacky Christians or Bikers in Waco!
We all LOVE our DEAR LEADER!!!
What a brave woman! She escaped with her humanity and soul intact, then helped her loved ones to escape.
I’m not going to complain about anything at all for the next several hours.
Yes.
Those don't count. When they did it they did not use the right people! We we do it, it will work out great because we have benevolent, understanding people who can make it work. Just give us a chance to create a socialist state here!
Political correctness today is only a mild form of what is in N.Korea. You suffer if you aren’t politically correct, only now it doesn’t risk your life.
It may risk your business, or friendships, or cause you to be investigated by the government though........
We are only a decade away from being N.Korea -......
Inspiring story.
FWIW, the system in Norkland has little to do with Communism other than in name.
I mean, really, hereditary miracle-working God-Kings? What’s Marxist about that?
What it does resemble a great deal is 2000 years of Korean history, where hereditary God-Kings ruled an oppressed peasantry, and where winning factions wiped out the losing factions of officials and all their extended families. Some of the old Korean purges took out tens of thousands of people.
“We are only a decade away from being N.Korea -......”
I fear that you are right. We have already surpassed anything that I ever imagined was possible in our country. Obama is mostly a symptom of a deeper problem with much of our society.
OUR DEAR LEADER has no a$$hole...
He has no need for one.
He IS enough of one for all Americans.
True. Just in case its too cryptic, the lines were from “The Interview”. Funniest part of the movie. I still laugh when I think of the scene....
It’s funnier to know that it is true. The fact that Kim does not have one, according to his propaganda.
My first experience or memory of Political Correctness was during the Clinton administration and for some reason I assigned blame to Hillary.
Brainwashing.
Just as the "progressives" intend. (Any progressive who denies that is a liar.)
North Korea - anti-christ’ test country.
>I mean, really, hereditary miracle-working God-Kings? What’s Marxist about that?
IMO, it’s like a cult of personality such as the ones based around Enver Hoxha of Albania, Ceaucescu of Romania, or Mao of China, but kicked up a few BIG notches. I felt that the ideology of North Korea is basically a combination of Communism, Korean ultranationalism, and the old Korean traits that you mentioned.
I can buy that, except I see Communism as last and least. Juche, after all, explicitly makes the military, not the workers, the dominant and most important class of the state. It is openly isolationist, nationalist and racist, as opposed to the universalism and internationalism inherent to Marxism.
It’s a lot closer to Nazism than Marxism, IMO. In fact, juche openly rejects both Marxism and Leninism.
Its most prominent feature, in many ways, is its devotion to isolation, which of course Korea was famous for as the hermit kingdom prior to its conquest by Japan.
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