Letter from Pyongyang

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Ulhas quoted:
> Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
> 
> July/August 2002, Volume 58, No. 4, pp. 50-54, 70
> 
> Letter from Pyongyang
> So two Kims, one alive and one dead, control all aspects of 
> life in this tiny, impoverished country, where Kim Il Sungism 
> is the reigning ideology. Questioning that ideology brings 
> banishment from the cities, imprisonment, or public execution.

How is that different from, say, the Thai Royal family or Dalai Lama of
Tibet?  Seems to me that N. Korea is not much different from other Asian
autocracies, but receives differential treatment solely because of its
ostensibly "socialist" ideology, which in this context is simply a code
word for authoritarianism.  The US ruling class and its intellectual
lackays will not miss an opportunity to discredit anything that smacks
of "socialism," no matter how farfetched the connection is.

Wojtek