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Originally Posted by Wormius
What does the average North Korean know about the rest of the world? Are they brainwashed into thinking that NK is a technologically advanced world power and everybody else is just living in the stone age? I just don't know where this bravado comes from, and why something that nearly every other first world country is capable of is given so much fanfare.
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I just finished a pretty interesting book
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
There is brainwashing, but not everyone is broken. Some just go with the flow because the alternative is a prison camp or starvation. Thousands of North Koreans escape/defect every year... so somebody in NK knows something or else they wouldn't have defected.