re: NK bans sarcasm because Kim Jong-un fears people only agree with him ‘ironically

From what I've seen, some of the people there are well educated, and I'm sure their brain is telling them things are fricked up, it's just that they know the punishment is death or gulag, so they'll say or do whatever they have to, to survive.

I'm sure that'll lend itself to its own form of PTSD once it ends though.