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By Deirdre Griswold, Workers World

The U.S. media and political authorities unanimously ridiculed the intense emotions that were displayed in public by the people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the sudden death of their leader, Kim Jong Il. How could such grief be genuine, they asked, implying that somehow the socialist government in the north forced people to weep in public as Kim’s funeral cortege drove by.

This cynical interpretation of the feelings of Koreans on the death of their leader makes no sense, especially given the fact — mostly ignored by the media here — that thousands of people in the south of Korea felt exactly the same way. In fact, the south Korean regime of Lee Myung-bak had its hands full stopping citizens in the south from sending condolence messages to the government in the north.

For those U.S. readers trained to disbelieve what the DPRK’s news sources report, this rigidly repressive stance of the south Korean regime was verified in an article in the Jan. 7 New York Times. Entitled “South Korean Law Casts Wide Net,” the article focused on the regime’s spying on its people’s use of the Internet, which has resulted in arrests and interrogation of those who expressed admiration for the north or its leaders.

Oh man the number of people that wept for Stalin and without a doubt Hitler. Grief means little to nothing. I think people vastly underestimate the impact of propaganda.