When satellites pass over the Korean peninsula at night, South Korea is lit up. Modernity. North Korea is not. It is dark, like the Dark Ages would be seen from space. North Korea is called the Hermit Kingdom because it is an isolationist nation. Its people have little to no contact with the outside world. The media they consume is pure propaganda – ranging from the deranged and false to absurd and laughable. North Koreans subsist on a low-calorie diet, with a majority of the population living on the edge of starvation. Since the armistice in 1953, multiple generations have been starved, with a majority of North Koreans suffering from stunted growth.
The communist government has fed lies to several successive generations where an overwhelming percentage of its population has no other baseline than bare subsistence, both intellectually and physically….
