Rystende læsning om Nordkorea og landets xenofobiske, selvglorificerende regime i B.R. Meyers nye bog The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters. Det virker som om alt, hvad man gik og troede om Kim Jong-il’s vanvidsstat er sandt. Og mere til.
Slate’s Christopher Hitchens har læst bogen:
Here are the two most shattering facts about North Korea. First, when viewed by satellite photography at night, it is an area of unrelieved darkness. Barely a scintilla of light is visible even in the capital city [se det yderst sigende satellitbillede i denne post]. Second, a North Korean is on average six inches shorter than a South Korean. You may care to imagine how much surplus value has been wrung out of such a slave, and for how long, in order to feed and sustain the militarized crime family that completely owns both the country and its people.
6 tommer lavere end sydkoreanerne. Et så håndgribeligt bevis på et diktaturs overgreb som man kunne ønske sig. Uhyggeligt.
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