North Korea
9 June 2010 22:57![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jrtomhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/asia/10koreans.html
I have trouble getting my head around just how intensely screwed up this is.
I mean, I knew that things in North Korea were bad, and I even knew a little bit of why, and how.
But the details simply boggle me. Kim Jong-Il is simply batshit insane--megalomaniac and paranoid at the very least--and this article explores one aspect of that, and the human cost.
I have trouble getting my head around just how intensely screwed up this is.
I mean, I knew that things in North Korea were bad, and I even knew a little bit of why, and how.
But the details simply boggle me. Kim Jong-Il is simply batshit insane--megalomaniac and paranoid at the very least--and this article explores one aspect of that, and the human cost.