re: #196 Guanxi88

Remember in that movie, the Matrix, where Neo wakes up and realizes where he is and what’s been done to them? Something very much like that would be the effect should they learn that EVERYTHING THEY EVER KNEW, HEARD, BELIEVED, OR IMAGINED was a lie. The human mind can’t take that; this is why so many NorK defectors commit suicide, or fall into mental illness.

Not only do I agree with you, but I share that I’ve listened to many (not all) the Korean-language videos from escapees, and they corroborate what you’re saying.

Matrix, lies? A more apt analogy might be to see the people of North Korea as crystallized TNT, unstable, subject to dissolving or exploding… hard to be ‘rational’ when your worldview has been made massively IRRATIONAL since birth…