I hope that North Korea can snap back into functionality as Estonia did. What it took there was 'merely' the removal of the totalitarian regime - and a new and capitalistic Estonia emerged from the ashes.

Good luck to North Korea.

Jan

This is the uptopia that our wonderful numbskulls in academia, the media and the Crapitol Hill want for us ~ the commoners. Of course, because they are self-identified as "special" they won't live like us~they're too busy representing our best interests. Right?

Only one over-weight person, many of the others have such fine features.

I find North Korea amazing. It's amazing just how bad humans can make existence. I've heard that many North Koreans believe most of the propaganda, but you never know which of them are just rightly scared to say anything but the party line. It would be logical if the gov't demanded they say the gov'ts pretty good. Instead they make them gush about it in an insane way. I don't get it. It's a morbidly fascinating train wreck.

I'm thinking of the mythical socialist utopia, a place where the "progressive" local branch of communism would just love to take us all kicking and screaming to. I just caught sad sight of our possible future.

Truly heartbreaking.

Eye-opening, but if anything even this is a rosy view. If you don't mind feeling sick to your stomach for a few weeks, go to YouTube and look up the BBC documentary "Access to Evil" and the multiple clips about Shin Dong-Hyuk, especially "Born and Raised in a Concentration Camp." To most people in the West, the atrocity that is communist North Korea is a distant abstraction at best; for the people who "live" there it's a living nightmare.

Our dear leader wants this for all. Americans that is except those elitists. This is a disgrace and it keeps going on and on. Pathetic excuse for a human being. Wonder has Obama ever heard of ROME!

Remember Ayn Rand's four criteria that make a country deserve invasion from without?

1. Execution without trial.

2. Detention without formal charge.

3. Restrictions on ex-migration.

4. Censorship.

Any country that does all four, deserves invasion, in her view.

I'd say North Korea qualifies. But Rand did not really treat whether any such totalitarian state would rise to a level of a humanitarian emergency, thus giving someone an affirmative duty to invade.