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Totalitarianism In North Korea
Hi, Cole sadly Totalitarianism continues to exist in the world. Unfortunately, the people live brainwashed by propaganda and media. The people cannot determine right from wrong, to resolve a sound decision. Hence the people remain forced to adopt an ideally unable to reason for themselves. Remarkably North Korea's roughly “25 million inhabitants are chronically hungry, malnourished, or straight-out starving”. What is worse is that the people remain persuaded to believe that other nations are worse off than they. Psychological abuse will leave a much bigger scar than the physiological suffering. I can only imagine the psychological damage the children face in their lifespan from being forced to flog themselves if they make an error. If a supreme

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