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>> "They have giant statues of their leader and a massive painting of him in the most prestigious place of the country." I'm sorry. I agree NK is a horrible pl
by k-mcgrady 12y ago
>> "They have giant statues of their leader and a massive painting of him in the most prestigious place of the country."
I'm sorry. I agree NK is a horrible place but that reasoning is ridiculous. Every heard of the Lincoln Memorial [0] or the Lansdowne portrait [1].
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansdowne_portrait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansdowne_portrait
Edit: Just realised you may have been using sarcasm. If so my mistake.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago> On official articles, the leader is mentioned everywhere. Washington Post? ;).
- nemo 12y agoI am pretty sure they were mentioning that in the sense that North Korea has a full blown cult of personality around their leader (who is an unelected life-long dictator). You'll note that there isn't a giant statue of Obama on the White House lawn and in every town square. In N. Korea this is the case. Adult Americans are not legally required to wear lapel pins featuring prominent past presidents, nor are they required to have images of those presidents in their homes with nothing else permitted on the wall that hosts those images, while in N. Korea they must. Americans can freely speak a poor opinion of Obama or the Congress or the SCOTUS and not fear that they and their family will be imprisoned and tortured, unlike N. Korea. The press can say what they like about Obama/other branches of the government without fear of censorship and imprisonment, unlike N. Korea where there is only state-run media that fawn over their leader. I think that was what they were trying to get at even if they didn't fully expand it.