N. Korea: Worse than the Third Reich?

Christopher Hitchens thinks it's possible:

But not even in the lowest moments of the Third Reich, or of the gulag, or of Mao's "Great Leap Forward," was there a time when all the subjects of the system were actually enslaved. In North Korea, every person is property and is owned by a small and mad family with hereditary power. Every minute of every day, as far as regimentation can assure the fact, is spent in absolute subjection and serfdom.

They've already got the concentration camps.

I suppose we'll think of it as more of a Cambodia than a Third Reich, since it didn't touch us personally. Unless, of course, they lob a missile over here.

(via Bookworm Room)