I haven't been following the news on the Atlantic's sponsored Scientology story, so I dont' know what the actual parody here is. However, as a side note, I had

I haven't been following the news on the Atlantic's sponsored Scientology story, so I dont' know what the actual parody here is. However, as a side note, I had a chance to visit North Korea in 2005 with a friend of mine, whose father was (and still is) running an orphanage there (my friend and I are both Koreans - South, but both have overseas citizenship). (The city we stayed was not Pyoung Yang - the capital city of NK, but a much smaller & poorer place) Seeing the state of the people was quite heart-breaking. Because of the shortage in electricity and water, the entire city was pitch black by 9pm. As a programmer myself, the technological dark age that they are in is also a huge concern. At school, students most of the time either do not have computers or use a set of donated computers from foreign aids. It would take a huge shift in almost all aspects of NK regime to make the Internet available to the people of NK. My heart aches.