Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea. I think they would find it very unattractive.

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

All of North Korea is a jail.

Inside, I’m assaulted by the evening propaganda broadcasts coming over the apartment’s hardwired loudspeaker. There’s one in every apartment and factory floor in Pyongyang

I felt like a frog that had just come out of its pit, from which it had contemplated the circle of sky outlined by the rim, and taken it for the whole of the world. I had passed through to the other side of the mirror. (162)