North Korea Isolation–> Modern Day 1984

May 30th, 2011: Book Three, Chapter I

“The masses never revolt of their own accord and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison they never become aware that they were oppressed.” Page 207. After reading this quote 1984 didn’t seem to far from reality for the very thing is occurring in present day North Korea today. It honestly surprised me how Orwell’s prediction of the modern world isn’t too off. Kim Jong-il’s regime over North Korea is total and is an absolute rule. There is literally some citizens of North Korea whom do not know we have landed on the moon. Kim Jong-il’s is able to maintain this control by the exact why the quote says, the people of North Korea live in isolation. They are unable to compare their life-style to the modern industrialized world. North Korea is a real life example of Orwell’s nightmare of the future.