Aye, it's a rotten situation and no mistake. One can perhaps hope that many of them, in the central parts of the DPRK at least and not around the borders where ROK transmissions can reach them, know no difference. To them the world is and always has been what they have heard and been told by official North Korean broadcasts. Some brave souls might listen to the BBC or to South Korean broadcasts, but at great risk and they wouldn't be able to talk to anyone else about it because they'd be arrested and sent for re-education.
If and when the day does come and Korea is reunified, it's going to be the biggest culture shock in generations.
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