NK is a shithole with extreme poverty and starvation and all that shit.
Nothing really ambiguous about that. Of course the WHY is the much more interesting question to ponder.
Exactly.
Some people still defend communism and it's bewildering to me. Last year there was an article I read in the paper about how great communism was and how it allowed many Chinese families to own a colour TV.
Honestly, without the internet, I think the shelf life of a lot of these silly ideologies would be longer. Think about when a so-called "guru" talks about a training principle which is nothing special and all the boards have threads refuting it. That's what I like about the net, since the truth comes out, albeit buried in a lot of reading at times. It's harder to say things which are obviously wrong though, because so many eyes are there to scrutinize such comments.
My friend taught in South Korea and by his account it was a very nice place and much like the Western world. Eventually North Korea will look like that too.