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cedillayesterday at 7:19 PM1 replyview on HN

It's a book, not a demonstration.

In any case, North Koreans are not taught that South Korea is just like any other part of North Korea. The idea that the North Korean people and leadership are all buffoons who make the weirdest of lies possible is already Orwellian enough.


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FridayoLearyyesterday at 9:10 PM

Well they do don't they? I read a couple of books about life in the soviet union. 1984 is satire, but it's not so far off from what reality was.