Who's running North Korea?

[DanaC]

I can't decide if that's worse than the nutty son being in sole charge of the country or not.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I know what you mean, when it's a nut making decisions there's a 50% chance he'll screw himself. But this group sound like dedicated evil, with checks and balances that keep them from making that kind of mistake.

I'll never understand what drives them though. Sure they want power and to be one of the less than 700 people with internet access in North Korea. But they could move the country in a different direction which would still benefit themselves while not fucking the rest of their countrymen as badly.

Maybe it's like keeping an animal in a cage, while abusing it regularly, there comes a point where the fear of it getting out governs your every move.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I'll never understand what drives them though.

Most of the leadership has never even been out of the country. They have almost no knowledge of the world other than from propaganda. This same concept so inspired Nazis to do what they did. And believe it was both good and right.

It goes right back to Zimbardo's tortute experiments in Stamford. Many (often a majority) only know what they are told to believe. Very few refused to up the voltage to dangerous levels as their victims screamed for mercy. Few learned how easily they could be decieved. Welcome to a whole country that brainwashed.

Which then begs a tough question. How does South Korea unite with the North as the two Germanys did? Difficult to believe a whole nation that brainwashed could suddenly accept a new reality.