Great submission!!

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I guess I'll try this *beg thing then.

Sending this video to Beggar's Corner to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter jimnms.

Wow, Great Sift!

Non-YouTube and original source: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/244

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Call me a stickler, but there is too much laughter in this presentation for my liking. Even though I'm hoping it's mostly uncomfortable laughter, people really need to see this documentary of life inside North Korea. The most horrific aspect of the tyranny there isn't even the abject poverty and cruel treatment of the people. It is the complete isolation and propaganda campaign that has a majority of the country truly believing in the "Great Leader".

There is an entire generation of adults who have never known anything but what has been told them by Kim Jong Il, and they BELIEVE it. The horrific thing is even if you could remove Kim's government with force, you'd be facing a population that would rise up in outrage for killing their most beloved deity. There just aren't words for the kind of human tragedy that is North Korea.

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