North Korea seems to be a rare case of a brutal autocratic government stamping out all resistance and successfully brainwashing an entire populace in the modern world. Even the Nazis, Stalinists and Maoists had to deal with resistance movements and populations that did not fully accept their ideologies. I'm aware of a lot of the history of North Korea and how Kim Il-Sung seized the moment after WWII to come to power, but I would like to know more about how the Kim family successfully brainwashed and pacified an entire nation. What was the "tipping point" for people accepting his absolute rule? How can millions of people starve to death and nobody fight back? How does the population accept ludicrous "facts" and explanations from the government? How can so many people suffer and see their neighbors suffering without anybody taking the initiative to revolt? What has enabled North Korea to clamp down on dissent for over 50 years despite increasing access (legally surreptitiously) by the citizens to international communication?