Kim Jong Il is dead, long live a relatively unknown factor...

[Kitsa]

I'm constantly amazed that their system manages to keep a chokehold on soldiers willing to carry out all of the executions. The documentary I just watched (Kimjongilia) featured an ex-soldier defector who described the military as being on starvation rations, receiving a small lump of pork on Dear Leader's birthday and having uncontrollable diarrhea because their bodies no longer knew how to digest it. A woman who was a dancer in the propaganda films told how she had to puff up her clothes to make it look as if she weren't starving, and march around singing things like, "What will we do with all this bountiful harvest?"