Hitchens on North Korea: Worse Than 1984

An excerpt:

A recent nighttime photograph of the Korean peninsula from outer space shows something that no "free-world" propaganda could invent: a blaze of electric light all over the southern half, stopping exactly at the demilitarized zone and becoming an area of darkness in the north. Concealed in that pitch-black night is an imploding state where the only things that work are the police and the armed forces.

Read and give thanks you live here.

Cross-posted at the Jawa Report (with video update).