Jim:
You are utterly fascinating. You ascribe to my posts positions I have not taken, and things I have not written. And you play that old trick I ran into in my youth. Communist country does evil things, therefore it can't really be Communist! Now Communism is an unrealizable ideal! (Reminds me of an old Kishon quote: Communism is "great in theory, the only problem is it CAN be realized!"

But even more remarkable is your attempt to bring in other dictators and other travesties of justice as your version of deflection. This is the very tactic you descry when you are bashing Israel and your opposition tries to bring out the even worse conditions/ behaviors of every other country in the region.

Most anti-Semites are hypocrites. Here we have two countries, two societies (N.Korea, S.Korea) which are racially and religiously similar but separated by clear ideological differences which has rendered one politically and economically rich and varied, and the other a depressed, oppressed hellhole by comparison. You are squirming as no worm has ever wriggled, to avoid facing up to the contrast. This has exposed you as never before.