[Skywalk]

And they say you can't set up a brutal absolute totalitarian regime in the modern "information age."

[copycat]

The mind-control techniques are backed by arrest, prison, torture and execution.

Isn't time for Patti Murray to regale her local students with a glowing assessment of the North Korea's wonderful infrastructure?

[DWSUWF]

Nuking these poor bastards would be an act of kindness...

[koax]

their south korean cousins want closer relations with them.

meanwhile, they want less american influences.

but they still expect us to buy their electronics and hyundai's and daiwoo-woo's.

[Husker24]

Unbelievable, I cant wait for the secrets that will come out when that sh*thole collapses. This regime sounds more psycotic then the Japanese during WWII.

[Steel Wolf]

Another nice Orwellian note we have learned from generations of defectors is that the North Korean dictators have no compunction about rewriting history, for instance: The birth of Kim Jong Il was supposed to have happened on a holy mountain near the Chinese border, where a host of angels descended and brought him to Earth, and the mountain bloomed in flowers that have yet to wilt. Kim Il Sung, the former leader, was responsible for the invention of the automobile, the airplane, electricity, and reportedly flew to the moon.

During the last cross border family reunion, some time back, the northerners were afraid to see their relatives in the south, lost to them since the war. When they did finally meet, they expressed shock that they in fact did not have HORNS and TAILS. The NK line is that all foriegners are demons, and the Koreans that fell under their sway were turned into demons by the 'evil imperialst agressors'.

50 years, folks. A mere fifty years, and their lives, history, and future are the product of an insane fairy tale. Portrait of a modern dictatorship.

[Yardstick]

This stuff almost sounds too over-the-top to be believable. I can't imagine a citizenry that would submit to weekly "self criticism" sessions.

[Bobibutu]

http://www.kimsoft.com/



An independent, non-partisan, FREE web on all things Korean: Her history, culture, economy, politics and military - since 1995.

A good place to start in coming up to speed on N & SKorea

Directly to the meat - http://www.kimsoft.com/2000/hanho.htm

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[Blood of Tyrants]

Chang Mi-ryung, a 29-year-old defector who arrived in South Korea this summer, said the regime forces everyone to attend a weekly 90-minute self-criticism session.

All are expected to explain their activities of the entire week, admit their mistakes, confess how they could have done better and snitch on the errors of others. All confessions are to be introduced with long quotations from the writings of the Great Leader and the Dear Leader.

In addition, twice a week, there are "ideological sessions" and lectures on the leaders' thoughts.

To ensure the weekly brainwashing sessions worked, the government operates random patrols and spot checks to monitor thinking. Students stop people in the streets to make sure they are wearing badges of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. Police officers and postal workers burst into apartments unannounced to make sure nobody is watching Chinese television instead of North Korea's state television.

This pattern is repeated in every paranoid totalitarian society and is slowly creeping into our country. The sad thing is how few people would care if they even knew. I have come to the conclusion that a large percentage of the population is unfit for freedom and barely suitable as slaves.

[maestro]

'Manchurian Candidates'......????

Choices!

[The Duke]

And the message that the globalists get from all this is..."Hey, look at what the people will tolerate!"

[Fred Mertz]

Interesting article and thread bump.

[AmericanInTokyo]

My opinion is that these ones will indeed fight to the death, their minds having been turned to brainwashed putty through three generations of propaganda.

They will not, IMHO, throw down their weapons and surrender to CNN cameras and ask for Madonna CDs, like the Iraqi.