Yossarian
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I think people portray in their mind whenever they picture a dictatorship some kind of 1984-esque situation where the government is omniscient and omnipresent, and where the common man works long hours for little pay to purchase substandard goods, and that he is threatened at every corner with banishment to the work camps or execution for any single word that escapes his mouth that could be construed as in opposition to the current order, and that the police come and beat him up and take all his stuff whenever they want, etc... In reality that really isn't the case.
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That is exactly the case in North Korea.
Human rights in North Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Banishment to work camps?
North Korean Prison Camp Escapee Tells of Horrors, Worries About Those Left Behind - washingtonpost.com
That from an actual escapee. But, oh, things are fine in North Korea...
Songun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is very obvious that the military-first 'Songun' policy has had overwhelmingly deleterious effects for the general population in a resource-starved country such as North Korea. It's not a question of states putting one interest group or another first, it is a question of why this particular country has implemented a system which so egregiously harms anyone who is not in the military.
Seriously, how can you defend in any way this sickening regime?
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