"It's not the people who are evil, but the regime ..."<p>I'm not sure about the North Korean case, but an author argued a few years back in the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners" that most WWII-era Germans were happy and willing to go along with the despot's genocide and total war.<p>"1984" ends with Smith Winston seemingly coerced into the attitude "[I] loved Big Brother".  I'm not so sure he had no choice ... I think people usually are complicit in that which they tolerate and support.<p>People can be evil.  In the U.S. we are too, in ways we usually don't acknowledge.<p>And sure, I broke the rule "if you have to bring up Hitler in an argument, you've already lost".  So be it.