User blog comment:Mmandator/Dystopia/@comment-9884526-20120219075850/@comment-9884526-20120219194258

Re-education camps are nothing new. Vietnam, Cuba, the USSR and other totalitarian nations have had their versions. As for the DPRK, Christopher Hitchens remarked, "It's like if Kim il-Sung read 1984 and said "Can we make the country as close to this as we can?" and someone said "I don't know, but we can give it the old college try."" Though they have the advantage in stabilitaty over Oceania by placing emphasis on Korean racial supremacy and homogeneity over Oceania's lack of internal racism (Eurasians and Eastasians aside).