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Commentary: Support — don't suppress — the North Korean resistance

North Korea is history's most perfected totalitarian state. Ruled by a deified dynastic dictatorship whose record of crimes against humanity is unparalleled, according to the U.N. Commissioner on Human Rights, no organized resistance against the regime has been reported. Until now.

A mysterious group called Free Joseon - or Free North Korea - has broken Pyongyang's seven-decades-long record of untouchability and trampled on its greatest taboo: The "Supreme Dignity" Kim Jong Un must never be desecrated.

In February, members of the group infiltrated the North

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