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HotAirhttps://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/03/hey-second-look-at-north-korea/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 03:18:24 -0400Hey, second look at North Korea?<![CDATA[Sure, propaganda is abound in North Korea, but patronizing literature like this doesn’t give credit to the North Korean people where it’s due. When I traveled around the countryside, school children narrated old Korean folktales to me, rather than regime propaganda. And my staff, along with all sorts of other North Koreans I’ve met, have read foreign books such as Alexandre Dumas’s thriller “The Count of Monte Cristo” or Ernest Hemingway’s “Men Without Women.” Some of them could even recite lengthy passages from the works. At home and sometimes at their universities, they watched foreign movies like “Gone with the Wind” and “Titanic.”]]>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:40:43 -0400<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/11/03/hey-second-look-at-north-korea-n97157