"It is estimated 100,000 million hours are spent preparing a mass(?) games."
And yet they let their people starve????
I don't get long term dictatorships like this, but I'd like to understand it better. (And you guys are free to help me understand!) I can grasp why when things are good, the country is prospering (at least more than it once did), when there are large scale social transformations happening to bring a rural society into an industrial society, and so forth, that a despot can hold on to absolute power. But when things are seriously wretched as they have been in North Korea for a long time, how is it a dictator holds on for so long? It doesn't seem to matter where on the globe it occurs or what age of history, it still amazes me that the strongman phenomenon lasts for so long a tenure. I know my understanding is warped by living in a free country, but I'm still missing something...
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