North Korea General Discussion.

The public in each constituency decide!
For example any wanna be exploiters, ie. the pro-capitalist restoration crowd, can put forward their 2cents at these local peoples assembly. You can imagine how such individual's input would go down. They have to deceive about their preferred candidate / system – they can’t be honest and say for example

I want a society where workers have to urinate in a bottle because they can’t take breaks, in a warehouse job because they have to deliver robot-level productivity per hour. I want 8 year old Congolese children digging cobalt with their bare hands for 16 hours a day to make my iPhone.

That kind of proposal generally doesn’t go down too well in an almost entirely class-conscious populace who’s history under Korean feudalism and then Japanese feudal/capitalist/imperialism was as intensively horrific for 50 years until 1953 as 1845-1849 was for Ireland.

I believe Korean’s have a restrained, polite culture. So I imagine such voices are listened to and then the majority view over-rides such minority views.
I have some progressive info about NK which I will add later.

Continued… To give an example of Kim Il Sung’s progressive, holistic, humanistic outlook on society – he wanted everyone to be having a regular healthy sex life from mid-teens onwards
(I can be certain without researching that he forbade the feudal practice of child-brides immediately on gaining power in 1945).

Now that’s humanistic Korean socialism for you!

In our primitive class-based society, the ruling class couldn’t care less about you having a full sex life. They only want you in the factory or office at 9am for 50 years or fighting in trenches for their profit line.

In this society, the good looking & those with full social skills have a full sex life from 17~

But those -

• who are not physically desired,
• have psychological trauma from their childhood rearing or
• who have a host of of other medical/physical/social issues

do not have a regular sex life in this society ie. they miss out on years or decades of regular sex.
So did the people crying (especially men) when Kim Il Sung died in 1994, make more sense now?

I think the DPRK has a progressive, equal society figured out without ‘outside help’.

We’re getting our money’s worth of KFA messaging today, aren’t we?

The Sex one was interesting; I must amend my list of «Reasons for KFA membership» to include that one. Christ on a bike…that one is fun :)

Sorry to pop the wheel on the DPRK Party Bus, but it’s that time again where the cold light of reality comes bursting through the window.

Here’s the thing: If anyone were to write «Kim Jon Un is wrong» and then peacefully hold up that sign in downtown Pyongyang, can anyone guess what would happen? Most of you are guessing right, while at least one person is angrily queueing up sentences featuring firey references to CIA / NSA / YMCA propaganda.

Yes, that hypothetical person is essentially toast, because in a single party totalitarian state ruled by one family, you have the freedom to do anything you like….so long as what you like is what he likes….

Now I give you back to your regularly scheduled KNCA messaging where the warm yellow liquid drizzling down upon you shall be redefined as «rain»

What do you think of my characterisation of actually-existing Irish sex life culture? (ie. the description that includes everyone)

I wasn't asking about your situation.
I was asking about all adults - the full statistical population experience.

Was mine an accurate description?

Do you know whay that is? It is because in Western World…women have agency. In North Korea…they do not.

I’ll get to the rest of this post later but this part stood out.

So are you saying that you believe that now January 2026, if a young North Korean man makes known his attraction to a young woman – she must submit to his sexual advances even if they are depraved advances, because she has no agency in that situation?

Are you absolutely sure about that?

Sounds like Orientalism to me!

Orientalism exposed. Not a good look.

And explains much, if not all, of your perspective on the DPRK.

What's the funniest thing I've said (re: N.Korea)?

India's is currently 67.74 years. Whats your point?

Huh?

Yes, its 72.48 on another check. Lower than DPRK. Still not seeing yer mans point above.

There’s also good reasons why having an open, lengthy discussion & analysis of each candidate’s abilities where say 30 people each have a jigsaw piece of knowledge of someone’s past behaviour & can share that with the group.

You can see the same dynamic on social media or here- take some nationally known figure who you think is fine ( because you know nothing about them); but 5 or 10 people have information that that individual has past convictions for beating their spouse, being involved in corruption or just being a waste of space, it could be any unit of information.

I think sharing all available knowledge then selecting the candidate is better for electing people than lower information or random guesswork by each individual atomised voter.

Expensive hobbies - Don’t know much about hobbies – they have golf courses, ski resorts & plenty of big leisure & aquatic centres. I imagine people don’t buy their own yachts & jetski’s but ride them at resorts.
Sports – They have won the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup three times, in 2006, 2016 and 2024 and the U17 World Cup in November 2025. Like any medium sized country - some successes.

My own guess is that this is due to North Korea being such a closed country compared to China or South Korea. Although I’m certain North Korea actually has athletes you could potentially do well in some sports, they have little to no experience in international competition beyond some of the bigger tournaments.

My suspicion is that the more open exchange of sporting people that you would see from the likes of China or South Korea just doesn’t happen with North Korea, since the state tightly controls who may or may not leave. I feel that this hurts their chances on the international stage, despite a desire to do well there.

This sparkling analysis puts Carl Jung in the ha-penny place!
Sadly, it is inaccurate. No personal frustrations here – no, its the present state of things that is the problem.

The US ruling class has selected China & NK as No.1 & No.2 targets for 90%+ of its global anti-communist propaganda effort. Which is mostly why threads like this exist and why its not a thread about Paraguay’s political model for example.

The PR against China has become anachronistic. Around 100 million tourists, students & visa workers visit it each year. Its lead in advanced science, industry & infrastructure is so undeniable that the CIA / BBC narrative on it just looks like stale, rancid propaganda from 2 centuries ago to more & more people. Which leaves No.2 N.Korea.

Here’s a few hints about what it is about-
the existence of war as a concept at all, let alone non-stop wars and coups / death squads etc
the existence of famines as a concept and who actually uses them as an economic tool

There are homeless people in Irish streets since forever- same with nearly all rich countries. That is not the failing of those individuals, it is a necessary daily warning that accompanies the carrot (wages) & stick (prison) system to be an obedient, unquestioning little worker …… homeless existing is also proof that those at the top of the power structure are anti-human psychopaths (I think of them as a different species even though they are the same species).

Congolese children digging cobalt with bare hands – representing all the sadism & exploitation of the Global South.
Etc.

That is what my interest in socialism (not just NK) is about.
Some people view the above chaos as nothing to do with them, or dissociate from it.