Pyongyang, December 9 (KCNA) - The imperialists and the paid bourgeois trumpeters are forcing other countries to introduce Western-style "freedom and democracy" ... But this is an insult to genuine freedom and democracy.
"Freedom and democracy" much touted by the imperialists are sham ones and they are nothing but camouflage to hoodwink working masses and cover up the reactionary nature of bourgeois dictatorship and the unpopular nature of the capitalist system. Bourgeois freedom allows a handful of the privileged to exploit and dominate popular masses, absolute majority of population, and lead carnal life. The Western-style "democracy" is the most reactionary and unpopular policy as it ruthlessly defies the desire and demand of the popular masses for freedom and democracy...

The article goes on in the same vein for several paragraphs. Strange stuff, don't you think? Joseph Stalin and Comrades Lenin and Marx could not have said it better. We can say the NK government is consistent anyway.

Do we need to answer the charges? We are "forcing" other nations into democracy? Referring to Iraq? Where a dictator was taken out? And replaced by free elections? Is this what NK fears?

"Genuine" democracy? Surely this article is not suggesting that North Korea is a model of true democracy? The rule of the people? And genuine freedom? Has anything ever been more ludicrous to consider? Can you imagine a shopping mall in Pyongyang that has music about Jesus running through it? Yet that's what you'll experience during this Christmas season, sandwiched in between music about our other heroes. Oh, my people don't serve Jesus, in the main, but His message is here, freely announced and by some happily received. Where is the freedom to do that in North Korea? Freedom? Are you kidding?

A handful of the privileged exploit America? Surely some have gotten rich here. It's the nature of freedom that some will rise to the top. It is the nature of NK's prison that most will sink to the bottom with never a chance even for normalcy, let alone prosperity.

"Lead a carnal life." Well we must agree with that. All who live outside the Spirit of God are carnal whether the rich American or the poor Korean. No governmental system has a monopoly on the flesh. And for a study of fleshly living at its max, a close scrutiny of the private life of the government leaders in NK would be in order. All the carnal pleasures government leaders there deny to the American masses have been enjoyed by them.

The last statement I quoted is pure Communist double-talk. Western democracy defies the desire of the masses for democracy. Can you figure it out? Has he even defined Western democracy? Has he defined pure democracy? What evil is it that America is supposed to have committed? Oh, we're plenty guilty, but does that government have any clue why?