Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Real Reason North Korea Won't Let its People Leave" video.

  1.  @kameljoe21  What they need is liberty and individual right to self-determination. Technology has never been their problem, it is the top-down central planning and control that has always hamstrung North Korea.
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  2.  @MrBorderlands123  Because we have a legal system that rewards prosecutions for pointless offenses such as purchasing alcohol on Sunday.
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  3.  @SteinlichStein  Actually, it is exactly what is happening in North Korea. DPRK is doing the very same things as the Soviet Union did, which is no surprise considering that North Korea was basically a client state of the USSR.
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  4.  @ethandollarhide7943  Yeah, and most of those top 15 are under the umbrella of US protection. Think about that.
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  5.  @RandallBesch  Because SOMEONE has to pay for it. No such thing as a free lunch. In the case of Scandinavia, the OIL SALES are what pays for the gravy train. The rest of Europe gets away with it because they don't spend squat on their militaries.
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  6. Yeah, the story sounds similar to one from before the Wuhan Virus insanity.
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  7. Indeed. The Berlin Wall wasn't to keep people out, it was to keep them in. Complete inverse of the Wall on the US southern border.
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  8.  @SteinlichStein  What is happening in North Korea is exactly the same as what happened in the Soviet Union, and Maoist Red China. There is a reason why Ukraine, the Baltic States, and the former members of the Warsaw Pact vehemently reject communism.
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  9. Indeed. Most who did take the China route would go on to Cambodia or Thailand and THEN turn themselves in to the authorities. The South Korean government already has agreements with those two nations that they will cover the costs of having them sent to ROC rather than back to DPRK.
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  10. I knew it sounded vaguely familiar.
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  11. Tell that to the slacktivist members of Congress who think that border patrol is the same as the KKK.
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  12.  @ethandollarhide7943  Funny, because the opponents of 2025 idolize Communist dictatorships like Red China and North Korea.
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  13.  @ethandollarhide7943  You realize that Communism is also a religion? One that worships the state? All of the evils you ascribe to Christianity are perpetrated by "atheistic" communist dictatorships.
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  14.  @hardworkingcriminal4873  They are not even allowed to move around their own country without special permission of the government.
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  15. Push it back a bit. The wheels were already starting to come off in the 1970s. It was the 1960s when the DPRK was riding high. Communism isn't sustainable long term, even with outside support.
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  16. South Korea only does this for those who flee North Korea. They do NOT do it for their own citizens.
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