Yes. How can people there who actually can get the info not look at South Korea and think freedom is better? I'm amazed by the interviews in which people say they think all good comes from the their leader. It would sound more believable to my ear if they said, "He's done amazing things. Of course he has the normal human foibles, but they don't get in the way from him standing up against an entire world that's trying to force us to replace our culture with a global system of greed." That to me sounds like a true believer. This stuff about him being a demigod sounds like they're making fun of him. I'd like to see what people think when the country's free and people can speak openly about what was going no. I suspect many people really believe their leaders are like gods, which just blows my mind.

I wonder if, according communist dogma, the stateless commune gets any lights on the night satellite map of Earth once the deformed state withers away.

Interesting idea, but millions of starving repressed people confronted with a political collapse... historically speaking that usually ends up getting a bit messy.