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Hero? Traitor? Vicious missionary? N.Korea’s many social labels

Reference book contains stunning new details about regime's classification system

Many dictatorships like to divide their citizens into several categories. Nazi Germany, for example, had Aryans and non-Aryans, and apartheid South Africa had Whites, Blacks, Indians and colored people. However, when such a classification theory was applied in practice, officials were in trouble, as in many cases they did not know to which class a certain citizen belonged. If the state instructs you that a true Aryan is a blond person with blue eyes, would you say that the Führer himself is of pure blood? If only whites are considered to be “real people,” how shall one deal with Germany’s