I just started reading this, but I want to add something immediately: It's my understanding that South Koreans are also very racist.  So I'm not sure if the regime is at fault for that one.<p>...<p>Yeah, I dunno.  It's Hitchens and he seems to be writing a sideglance apologia for Communism.  (As in, "See these shrunken slaves: It's <i>nationalism</i> that made them this way, not Marxism.")  Nothing new really.  China is doing something very similar actually, and they have been replacing Communist rhetoric in schools with nationalistic rhetoric, and for them it seems to be not a problem.