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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: BSB on April 24, 2012, 01:49:20 AM

Title: The Gulag Behind the Goose-Steps
Post by: BSB on April 24, 2012, 01:49:20 AM
North Korea's prison camps

The gulag behind the goose-steps

A ghastly secret that the North Koreans have tried to hide for too long
 
http://www.economist.com/node/21553090 (http://www.economist.com/node/21553090)

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Stunning. The communist leaderships of Stalin's USSR, North Korea, even Castro's Cuba, make radical Muslims look like boy scouts. 

BSB
Title: Re: The Gulag Behind the Goose-Steps
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on April 24, 2012, 01:14:30 PM
North Korea is not Communist nearly as much as it is a perverted form of mandatory Confuscionism.

Koreans tend to be extreme in their practices: the food is too hot, the distinctions of family relationships are too complex, social relationships are too rigid.

South Korea has the advantage that people have mobility and freedom of expression. In the North there is none of that.