William Moore
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
The dread, fear, and despondency one feels immediately upon reading <br>that spine-tingling sentence, "It was a bright, cold day in April and the<br>clocks were striking thirteen" one feels when thinking about North Korea.<br>North Korea is a monstrosity and I hesistate to describe that Orwellian<br>state which refers to itself as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea<br>as a country. In North Korea, suicide is extraordinarily common on account<br>of North Koreans' feeling fear and loss of morale. Any alleged deviation <br>the Party-determined norm earns a North Korean a trip to Kim Jong Il's <br>torture chambers, or internal exile.<br><br>What is so bad about internal exile? It means a North Korean lives in a<br>region where food is scarce and the survivors eat grass, mice, frogs, etc.<br>Those who've been internally exiled are labeled as Objects of the<br>Dictatorship. Do you think Hate Week is obscene and dehumanizing? Consider<br>the subway in Pyongyang. One of the stations is Kill Americans. <br><br>Father Malachi Martin said to me, "hell is where God is not." We know what<br>happened to the character in 1984 who wrote G-O-D. Having committed Godcrime, he earned a one-way ticket to the Ministry of Love. Yes, Oceania mocks the truth as North Korea does by referring to itself as a democratic people's republic. I think North Korea is where God is not. The question: Do totalitalitarian states flip their subjects' minds? I think not. Were North Koreans to love Great Leader and Dear Leader (Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il, respectively), there would not be machine gun-toting soldiers in subway stations. My message to the President of the United States: Down with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.