It help me understand how people could be programmed when Malice compared the textbooks in NK and how they describe the Dear Leader (that's what they call him) to how we were taught in U.S. schools about "honest Abe" and George Washington and the cherry tree. Or even the mythical view many have of "the founding fathers". If you can see how we are indoctrinated to believe in democracy then I think you should be able to see how an isolated people could be conditioned to support their own prison keepers.