[txhurl]

to call the people a Personality cult is an understatement

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Do you think instant relative freedom will render them insane? Certainly contact with chinese contractors has given them some picture of the real world outside their bubble?

[caww]

.....”Do you think instant relative freedom will render them insane? Certainly contact with chinese contractors has given them some picture of the real world outside their bubble?”.....

No but but it’s not going to be an easy transition.....You have to remember it’s not so much that they aren’t aware of an outside world...it’s they don’t believe it because of the propaganda machinery that operates 24 hours there....everything outside N.Korea’s teachings is BAD and harmful ‘in their minds’.

It has been said that even the officials close to Kim, who have the advantage of seeing the outside world....don’t believe it.....belief is the issue.

I’ve worked with cult members....and let me say it is not an easy return for them.....this is an entire country of people who do not believe they are brainwashed....even when they are aware of the outside world. And they’re deeply nationalistic.