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North Korea
http://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.