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[FDNY]

1/ Both are militarized and aggressive.
2/ Both execute their own citizens.
3/ Both have father-to-son power transfer.
4/ Both have a phenomenal income difference between rich and poor.
5/ Both need a "bogey man" to scare the populace. The North Koreans
have the USA and the USA has terrorism.
6/ Both governments have no problems spying into every detail of the
personal lives of their inhabitants.
7/ Both have huge, well stocked and pervasive prison systems.
8/ Both have drug problems.
9/ Both have a large portion of their populace living below the poverty line.
10/ Both have weapons of mass destruction.

[Steelrails]

Some points to consider-

1. Militarize or be invaded has been the lesson of history the last 10000 years.

2. Meh. In the U.S. its for convicted murderers who don't plea bargin and are found guilty by a jury.

3. Pretty much every culture suffers from nepotism. A strong man once said, "La Familia es Todo". Besides, we voted for them. Many countries still retain ceremonial monarchs. Those that don't have famous father-son or father-daughter powerholders often have power politics that resemble something out of a gang movie.

4. Pretty much every country on Earth has that. And the poor in the U.S. are remarkebly well off on the grand scale of things.

5. Yeah, that's kind of exceptional. Most other countries, the people's enemy is "that **** who works over in accounting" or that girl who smiles a little too charmingly at your boyfriend.

6. Almost all governments have spy networks that look into domestic activities. To not do so would be hopelessly naive.

7. Yeah, prison in the US is out of control. No argument here.

8. People love to get high/buzzed pretty much everywhere. Yes, even the Middle East.

9. See number 4.

10. Meh. Neither has used them in a long time and they seem to work to prevent wholesale slaughter. I mean, which would you rahter have- 50 years of Cold War with "police actions" in a few countries or 5 years of very bloody World War?

[Fox]

[Kuros]

North Korea's regime is one of the very few totalitarian states left, whereas the United States regime is merely authoritarian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism#Authoritarianism_and_totalitarianism

[El Bandito]

[World Traveler]

Here's a dissimilarity:

People around the world are desperate to get into the United States (the wealthiest country in the history of civilization).

People in North Korea are desperate to get out.

North Korea has fences and border guards preventing people from getting out.

The U.S. has a long waiting list of people who want to get in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El7W8tusUYk

[Kuros]

[El Bandito]

[FDNY]

Wait, I forgot one:

11/ Both flags are red, white and blue and feature star(s) and stripes.

[KimchiNinja]

North Korea comparison was interesting, hadn't thought of that.

The USA is a new species of fascism. Tyranny learns, evolves, becomes more covert. The Hitler thing was straight forward -- there is a man, you end the man, the thing ends. The USA thing is much more savvy, there isn't a man, there is "the corporation". You can't kill something that doesn't exist.

If you tally up all the lives that ended from 1) USA guns at home and abroad, 2) their poisoned food supply, 3) their drug selling "medical" industry; you've got a lot of dead humans, and a wonderful amount of corporate profit!! There's no need to carry on overtly like Hitler did, what does that accomplish? Better to keep your population alive and then cannibalize them. More profit, more better.

[CentralCali]