AN ENSLAVED STATE WHERE PRIVATE LIFE IS ABOLISHED

We did drop tiny ear-bud radios to pick up out of country transmissions.

The Associated Press ("N. KOREA: U.S. WAGING CULTURAL INVASION", 2004-09-14) reported that the DPRK on Tuesday accused the US of sending midget radios and "impure" publications into the country to destroy the isolated communist state with "rotten imperialist reactionary culture." The DPRK government has reportedly tightened surveillance in recent months, out of fear that some of its hunger-stricken people were receiving smuggled tiny transistor radios capable of receiving outside news. Some US-based Korean groups seeking democratic change in the DPRK have attempted to send small radios carried by balloons into the DPRK. "The US imperialists are now bent on their moves to send midget radios and TV sets into (the DPRK) in an effort to break up the single-hearted unity there and degenerate and disintegrate it from within," the official newspaper Rodong Sinmun said. "Out of the same motive, the US imperialists are trying to send impure publications."

If N.K. was a slave state, as it may have been at one time, they'd have plantations, factories, and people working them.

Your extremely narrow definition belongs to a concrete-bound mentality. Those of us who can think in concepts and principles know that the defining earmarks of slavery include the inability to live one's own life in a self-chosen manner on a self-chosen path nomatter WHAT the external conditions are like.

Isn't that definition of marriage?

Sure. Being happily married is just like living in North Korea. My wife just made me a scrumptious breakfast of grass and twigs this morning, in fact.

It came from reading unclassified case studies released by the CIA, the State Department, and NGO's including AI (they actually muster a bit of condemnation for NK).

The innate fear and hatred of Americans was a common thread. It can be unlearned, but it would be very powerful against us during a war.

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