North Korea is Oceania

The dread, fear, and despondency one feels immediately upon reading that spine-tingling sentence, "It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen" one feels when thinking about North Korea. North Korea is a monstrosity and I hesistate to describe that Orwellian state which refers to itself as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a country. In North Korea, suicide is extraordinarily common on account of North Koreans' feeling fear and loss of morale. Any alleged deviation the Party-determined norm earns a North Korean a trip to Kim Jong Il's torture chambers, or internal exile. What is so bad about internal exile? It means a North Korean lives in a region where food is scarce and the survivors eat grass, mice, frogs, etc. Those who've been internally exiled are labeled as Objects of the Dictatorship. Do you think Hate Week is obscene and dehumanizing? Consider the subway in Pyongyang. One of the stations is Kill Americans. Father Malachi Martin said to me, "hell is where God is not." We know what 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.