The title of the post is a quotation from the British writer Christopher Hitchens, who wrote about the North Korean system in an article written in 2010.   Hitchens began by recounting a visit to North Korea and how his minder had expressed racist views in such a way that it was obvious that such views were central to what, for him, was a quite normal and acceptable worldview. I think about how to understand this dreadful ideology within a wider context.