North Korea

[Brad De Long]

>
>     Cumings argues, convincingly, that however strange repugnant this
>leader
>worship is to an educated middle class American, it is well within the
>Confucian tradition of respect and reverance for the benevolent
>patriarch. The language used in the  'leader worship' documents is
>Confucian: 'fatherly', 'benevolent'etc.  North Korea if anything
>resembles a Confucian kingdom.
>
>
>
>Sam Pawlett

Yeah.

I've heard the "political democracy is good for Westerners but 
benevolent despotism is better for Asians" line before...

Brad DeLong