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The concept of liberty or humour or irony or happiness or love doesn’t exist. You are there simply as a prop for the State. And though used to be, as with any slave system, that they would feed you in return for your services. That compact broke down a couple of decades ago. Now they don’t feed you either. They barely clothe you. The so-called demilitarised zone, you’ve seen the word ‘demilitarised zone’ haven’t you, in the press even quite recently. Why do they call it demilitarised zone? Words lose their meanings so fast; it’s the most militarised zone on the planet. There are nuclear mines sown in the DMZ, there’s a concentrating of force and violence on either side of it that is unequalled anywhere, it’s the most militarised zone in the world. That’s the only place where North Korea and South Korean soldiers meet directly face-to-face, staring at each other across the table. They change guard about five or six times a day. The North Koreans naturally put up their best soldiers to stand there, to put the best, bravest, toughest face on North Korea. The best ones they can find are six inches shorter than the South Korean ones are. That’s what a famine state is, on top of a slave state. We now have millions and millions of North Korean children totally stunted in mind and body and will have to be dealt with at some point, who have been raised to believe that they live in a regime that is run by a god.
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