By Doug Newman

(This was originally published on 1/29/11. I updated it on 12/18/11 upon the news of the death of Kim Jong-Il.)

North Korea has single-payer health care, for which many on the left clamor. It also has the world’s most comprehensive most comprehensive national security apparatus, for which many on the right clamor.

Would you want to live there?

Utopia always sounds good, when someone else is on the business end of it.

Aerial photo of the Korean Peninsula at night.

Don’t be so smug and prideful to think that it can’t happen here. Here are 11 ways that America is trending in the North Korean direction.

North Korea, The Dark State – from 60 Minutes.

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