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Re:Check out English version of the official newspaper of No... by ChinoAntrax on Friday June 03, 2016 @07:51PM (#11834085)
I like how in this picture everyone has notepads out and look eager to write down everything the Dear Leader says. I wonder if people there truly believe the rhetoric or if they are just doing what they have to do because they don't want to end up on the wrong side of a work camp?

http://www.rodong.rep.kp/article_contents_en/2016/05/27/phot...

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Re:Check out English version of the official newspaper of No... by cogentleman on Friday June 03, 2016 @07:57PM (#11834110)
I am friends with a South Korean man, and asked him about this once. From his experience with North Korean people, he said they really did buy into the Kool-Aid and really did think of Kim-Jong Un as a glorious leader and all that jazz. Not that they are all fanatical, but there's a level of enthusiasm for it all that's really there.
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