North Korea is a socialist hellhole

Perhaps no other government on earth regulates the lives of its citizens more than Kim Jong Il's North Korea. The Democratic Peace blog has some damning facts of the current regime, as well as this astonishing night-time satellite photo of North Korea and South Korea.

You can see who has higher living standards. It looks like there is almost no electricity available in the North Korean police state at all.

I encourage you to read the full text of the article and discover all the horrors that exist in North Korea. Food is rationed by the government.

Food is put aside first for "patriotic rice" and "military rice." This has resulted in Kim cutting the consumption of 700g of food a day per person by 22 percent, or to 400g a day, well below the minimum consumption of rice set by the World Food and Agricultural Organization.
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In this "classless" communist society, the regime has divided North Koreans into a rigid hierarchy of three classes, and fifty-one subdivisions, depending on a person's status within the communist North Korean Workers Party and the military, their perceived faithfulness to communism, and family backgrounds.
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There are no hospitals, doctors, or medical distribution and supply companies independent of the regime. All are nationalized. As with food, therefore, medical treatment and medicine is distributed as reward and punishment.