The North Korean regime, one of the last remnants of Communist totalitarianism on the planet, did not transmit their football team's World Cup game against Brazil live.

The North Korean political commissars wanted the comfort of editing out the 'objectionable' bits of the game before 'the people' were allowed to watch it. Now where did I hear that argument recently?

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