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An official atlas of North Korea

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228 points speckx | 2 comments | 17 Nov 25 18:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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monooso ◴[17 Nov 25 18:37 UTC] No.45956494[source]▶
> According to the prevailing narrative in North Korea, the war was won by the communists and since then, the entire Korean peninsula has remained united under the rule of the Korean Workers’ Party.

(Emphasis mine)

TIL. Now I'm really curious how maintaining this fiction works (or doesn't) in practice.

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ceejayoz ◴[17 Nov 25 19:00 UTC] No.45956769[source]▶
I mean, see American politics for a similar example.

The Epstein files are simultaneously a "Democrat hoax" and full of prominent Dems. The Attorney General both has them on her desk, and they don't exist.

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1. Volundr ◴[17 Nov 25 19:06 UTC] No.45956824[source]▶
And there's not enough in them to charge or investigate any 3rd parties, until some are made public and now there's enough to investigate Democrats.
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2. Terr_ ◴[17 Nov 25 20:04 UTC] No.45957626[source]▶
And suddenly the unimportant records that don't exist but were also a hoax but also implicate the-other-guy are about to be made public... suddenly an "ongoing investigation" is the new excuse.

> The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between the true and the false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

-- The origins of Totalitarianism (1951), by Hannah Arendt