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I just printed at work and read this about North Korea, a place which interests me a great deal, for it is an example of ideological influence gone wrong. An excerpt:
Still, North Korea has repeatedly acted against its own interests. Its acts of terrorism overseas, such as blowing up a South Korean airliner and attacking a South Korean delegation to Burma, both in the 1980s, served no strategic purpose and did much harm. And it has shown a bizarre self-confidence. When some South Korean farmers spotted a North Korean mission that had sneaked into South Korea with plans to assassinate the president, the North Korean commandos detained the South Koreans, lectured them on North Korean ideology, and, astonishingly, let them go, assuming that they would now support the North Korean assault. Instead the South Korean farmers promptly alerted the authorities, and the North Koreans were arrested as they approached the presidential residence.
I both love and hate about people that if their circle of influences is tight enough, insular enough, there is no end to what they can be convinced of. This goes on in every society on some level, but in north korea it's so extreme that it's like entertainment for the rest of the world. It's like a terrarium of human rights disasters. That reminds me of Michael Savage, whose real name is Michael Wiener's words: “When you hear ‘human rights,’ think gays. When you hear ‘human rights,’ think only one thing: someone who wants to rape your son. And you'll get it just right. OK, you got it, right? When you hear ‘human rights,’ think only someone who wants to molest your son, and send you to jail if you defend him.”
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