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To: bentway who wrote (294106)	7/10/2006 2:01:33 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572549

JCP, These people describe a population that LOVE Kim, and worship him. The story of Stalin and the plucked chicken comes to mind. Tenchusatsu

To: bentway who wrote (294106)	7/11/2006 2:08:11 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572549

You think this report indicates the people of NK love their leader? Mandatory portraits in every home, broadcast propaganda at 6am, forcibly removing children from the family at 6 months and 7 years mandatory service in the military causes the NK population to love their leader? Are you nuts??? Do you think the North Korean population is full of unthinking idiots? "Every single home in this country has two portraits on the wall, one of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung, who is still president even though he died 11 years ago, and one of his son, the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. Inspectors regularly visit homes to make sure the portraits are well cared for. Every subway car carries those same two portraits as well, and every adult wears a button depicting the Great Leader. And every home (or village, in rural areas) has an audio speaker, which starts broadcasting propaganda at 6 each morning to tell people how lucky they are. Children spend long hours in day care centers from the age of 6 months, sometimes returning to their parents only on weekends. Men normally perform seven or more years of military service. Disabled people are sometimes expelled from Pyongyang, a green and well-groomed capital that is one of the prettiest in Asia, because they are considered unsightly. And although the national ideology is juche, or self-reliance, the U.N. World Food Program feeds 6.5 million North Koreans, almost one-third of the population. Even so, hunger is widespread and has left 37 percent of the children stunted. Yet North Korea focuses its resources on prestige projects, like an amazing 10-lane highway to Nampo (with no traffic). Many conservatives in and out of the Bush administration assume that North Korea's population must be seething and that the regime must be on its last legs. Indeed, the Bush administration's policy on North Korea, to the extent that it has one, seems to be to wait for it to collapse. I'm afraid that could be a long, long wait. The central paradox of North Korea is this: No government in the world today is more brutal or has failed its people more abjectly, yet it appears to be in solid control and may even have substantial popular support . . ."