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Getting more and more information about the outside world into the general populace of North Korea could also serve to undermine the regime.

I hope you're right.

I've hoped for the same thing in Iran for about 30 years, but no joy.

Unfortunately the power of propaganda is huge, just look at what the leftists do in the schools here.

[Louis Foxwell]

The problem in Iran is very different. Iranians are well acquainted with Western culture. They are perfectly clear about the oppression they experience at the hands of the Ayatollah and fundamentalist Islam. Their most recent attempt to stand up to this regime was met with silence by our own wannabe ayatollah president. Repression in NK is a thousand times worse.