Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
I agree that's feudal and seem primitive from a Western society. But at least it means they don't have a slum surrounding the capital city, and people live where they are needed and can be provided for.
However, in India, people are born into a caste, and discriminated against for the rest of their lives, based on something they can't control at all. North Koreans can apparently sometimes descend the groups, and people can move to where their spouse is. I have seen this Indian discrimination right in front of my eyes, with educated colleagues, several times. It is extremely ugly and disturbing. Apparently it's 100 times worth with the poorly educated. Additionally, the problem with malnourishment in India is worse than in North Korea where they actually got on top of it recently - it seems to have been a problem for proportions of the population for about 8 years on and off. In India it's an ongoing issue for half the population, indefinitely.

In Saudi Arabia, half the population - women - cannot leave their own house without a black tent-like outfit covering their entire body, AND a male escort for anything but very mundane trips. In North Korea people can dress more or less as they want, and many women hold leadership positions.
Saudi Arabia incidentally also has a very brutal regime, on par with North Korea for punishing dissidents.
Talking about NK i didn't mean there's nothing same or worse in the world. (the only difference that in india and SA those are the social traditions that last for thousand years while in NK regime is relatively recent)

Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
But wait - they are chums with the USA, so forgot all of this paragraph, none of it matters! It's only countries like North Korea who are not chums with the USA that we must worry about!
That's what i was talking about being a smbdy's bigger ally.


P.S. But we went off topic

Now it seems like USA government not exatly 100% gone rogue ))