A Must Read. - Anne Penketh has a report on Independent.co.uk which gives a great perspective on the current conditions of the mind and hearts inside North Korea.
Her article is titled, God is dead. Long live Kim II Sung, and begins with this tagline:
In a country where Christianity once flourished, the Great Leader stands at the pinnacle of a religious mythology with its own Holy Trinity.
Here's the first two paragraphs:
"You must not fold the Great Leader's face." The stewardess was not joking when she sternly addressed the passenger on the Air Koryo flight out of Pyongyang, as he creased a special issue of a magazine devoted to the achievements of the late leader of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, to place it in his bag.
A British diplomat on the same Soviet-era Ilyushin-62 received the same treatment when he asked the stewardess to leave his drink on the magazine, while he read a newspaper. She waited until he had cleared the tray so that the Great Leader on the cover would not be sullied.
I highly recommend reading it if you are interested in current events and issues that will shape the world's future.
