How To Steal An Election
September, 2004
In the only election since he assumed power in 1994, North Korean dictator Kim Jong II got 100 percent of the vote. How did he do it? It's easy to be the most popular candidate when you don't have an opponent. Refugees reported that during a wave of famines in the 1990s, the government rewarded supporters and members of the military with donated food rations, while critics were left to starve. Kim has sentenced officials he suspected of disloyalty to prison, a concentration camp or death.In 1972...
