You are probably too young to remember, but in the 60s and 70s American leftists made a trendy pastime of comparing the disreputable Syngman Rhee or vaguely thuggish Park Chung-Hee to Hitler, and studiously ignoring, or even praising, the monstrous brutal insane Orwellian police state on the opposite side of the DMZ.

How's that working out for them in the Workers' Paradise these days?