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Okay, what do the US and North Korea have in common?

The US and North Korea lead the world in something.

It's not a water balloon throwing.

It is definitely not movies based on comic books.

It is actually incarceration rates.

The US incarceration rate is 716 per 100,000.

In North Korea, there's little information, but we estimate that it is between 600 and 800

per 100,000 people.

If it was on the low end at 600, it would put North Korea at fourth in the world.

If it was closer to the high end at 800, that would put it by far as the number one country

in terms of incarceration per capita.

The incarceration rates are high in North Korea for different rates than they are in the

United States, right?

In North Korea, you can be imprisoned or sent to prison camps because a family member

did something which angered the regime for so many other reasons.

In the US, of course, we have the war on drugs, the prison industrial complex, over incarceration,

and so many other things.

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