Have you ever heard of ICE?
Not that NK is in anyway acceptable - it’s a sad mess. But you must be aware that they do not hold a monopoly on being terrible.
Not that NK is in anyway acceptable - it’s a sad mess. But you must be aware that they do not hold a monopoly on being terrible.
What I'm trying to say is that the scale of repression of free will and thinking, torture, murder, impoverishment you observe in NK is simply incomparable, from any reasonable angle, to anything happening in western democracies (and to many other countries that aren't western democracies).