North Korea

Kim Jong Il is said to be a huge movie buff, it's therefore somewhat ironic that movies may be playing a huge role in promoting dissent within North Korea:

Watching South Korean soap operas and Hollywood movies inside North Korea, defectors say, is scary, exhilarating and depressing.

"We closed the drapes and turned the volume down low whenever we watched the James Bond videos," said a North Korean woman, who two years ago fled her fishing town in a boat with her husband and son.

"Those movies were how I started to learn what is going on in the world, how people learned the government of Kim Jong Il is not really for their own good," she said.

It's sad that China is effectively doing more to bring down Kim Jong Il's regime than the U.S., which continues to shoot itself in the foot with its sanctions regime.