The author had feared he was losing his mind under Isaacson's regime, writing to the home secretary of "the fearful system of cellular confinement", the absence of writing materials, and the absence of books which he called "so vital for the preservation of mental balance".
McGregor describes him as "the central propagandist of the New Order regime", writing that he worked "tirelessly" to support the military.
In December five countries met to persuade North Korea to accept a verification regime written by its ally, China.
"I am intrigued by your calls for freedom and for overthrowing the regime," wrote a Syrian Christian woman on her Facebook page, addressing Christian female protesters.
"Syria's current social unrest is, in the most direct sense, a reaction to a brutal and out-of-touch regime," write Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell, in a report for their Center for Climate and Security in Washington.
"Typhoid fever hit Cowan Bridge, leading to a number of deaths among its pupils, thought to have been exacerbated by the school's poor food and harsh regime," writes the British Library.
"Magath gave his artists a framework in which they could let loose – with an idea of fast attacking football, with hungry and able players, with a hard training regime," wrote Tagesspiegel.
Even Nineteen Eighty-Four, that darkest of literary visions, does not end with a boot stamping on a human face for ever, or with a broken Winston Smith feeling a drunken love for Big Brother, but with an essay about the regime written in the past tense and in standard English.
A cold friendship with Israel - Despite claims of the inevitability of an alliance between Turkey and Israel, the Middle East's only secular democratic regime, writes Radikal's Fehim Tastekin, Israel still "dared to attack" the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara in 2010.
"No deal is perfect, especially one negotiated with the Iranian regime," wrote Mikulski, according to Roll Call.
"They have kidnapped @leopoldolopez because he simply would not break under the pressures and false promises of the regime," wrote Freddy Guevara, a legislator from Lopez's Popular Will party.
