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Re:The Secret History of Kim Jung Il -- written by one of hi... by mqzaidi on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @07:52AM (#3373239)
I am finding a few things hard to believe as well. In the commonwealth games, the Indian Government rounded up beggars and sent them out of Delhi. In the Iraq war, GWB banned the media from covering body bags. Every state is guilty of this ,so unless the deliberate crippling part is true, it may just be another exercise in FUD, much like the weapons of mass destruction.
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Re:The Secret History of Kim Jung Il -- written by one of hi... by spodek on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @10:15AM (#3373685)
The control of information and people's lives in North Korea is incomparably more than the examples you gave. Respectfully, your comparisons are not close.

The difference is not merely quantitative.

North Korea's activity is well documented and overwhelming.

If you want independent corroboration, sources here -- http://joshuaspodek.com/north-korea-bibliography, particularly in the human rights sections -- are a good place to start.

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Re:The Secret History of Kim Jung Il -- written by one of hi... by drumdance on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @08:38AM (#3373365)
The FUD would be a lot easier to refute if NK would actually let people into and (especially) out of their country without a security apparatus monitoring their every move.
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Re:The Secret History of Kim Jung Il -- written by one of hi... by dinkumthinkum on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @12:36PM (#3374288)
The problem with your argument is that in the West, we immediately knew about those issues. You just can't compare those two things.
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