Things are happening with North Korea. There *seems* to be forward motion on talks aimed at gettign rid of the Nork Nuke Program. And that’s nice… if it’s on the up-and-up. The North Korean leaders are pretty well known for being not only flaky but downright nuts, so who the frak knows just what their real plans and goals are. But one thing is certain: they’re nuts, and it’s a form of nuts reinforced by generations of truly nutty propaganda. And its propaganda that they’ve been stuffing into the North Korean population for longer than most of them have been alive. It’s the sort of propaganda that the Jews of the world would probably recognize… blood libels based on hearsay and outright lies, but libels that are lapped up and believed, and virtually impossible to dispel.

Take a look at this nonsense:

16 Disturbing Pictures From Inside North Korea’s Anti-America Museum

“They are cannibals seeking pleasure in slaughter.” — Kim Jong Un

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This museum, which seems to be filled with such “evidence” as paintings made decades after the fact, has all the reliability of the Ark Experience but with the added bonus of an area made specifically for “revenge pledging.”

After World War II, the Allies embarked on a massive “de-Nazification” effort to eliminate the effects of Nazi-era propaganda from the German populace. It took years and was generally effective… but the Nazis were not only not as overpowering as the North Korean regime, the Nazis were in power for only 12 years. I suspect any effort to turn North Korea into a land full of people who aren’t fully twisted up will be on the scale of convincing the people of Mecca to turn over the Kaaba to the Jehovahs Witnesses.