A screen shot from BBC TV news today shows a North Korean voter bowing before the electoral authorities as he prepares to deposit his ballot in Sunday’s local elections.
The ballot, according to BBC, contains the name of a single candidate nominated by the ruling communist party. If a voter wants to vote against this candidate, he must tear the ballot before dropping it into the ballot box. Somehow, I am guessing that rather few citizens of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea exercise that option.
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And yet, if the regime’s facade of power started to crumble and fell below the tipping point, millions of Koreans like this gentleman would queue to hang President Kim from a lamp-post, like Mussolini and Ceausescili.
Seed planted by Tom Round — 30 July 2007 @ 02:23
I think I’ll use this in class this morning–we were just talking about North Korea.
Seed planted by Greg Weeks — 30 July 2007 @ 08:30