North Korea General Discussion.

.with the freedom to criticise authority figures... then singing the praises of communist tyranny...

Below is the type of person who has sold a so-called “truth” for decades that N.Korea is a tyranny!

(I know Miller is not a capitalist multi-Billionaire, but this is what they are like in their character - deranged barely-human weirdos).

I wouldn’t buy rat-poison from this type of character, let alone any political beliefs.

But each to their own!

There are plenty of North Koreans who talk about their lives in this documentary:

This documentary is about NK political hostages held in SK and how the NIS systematically manufactures the NK horror narrative that is then recycled across the West’s MSM.

https://archive.org/details/loyalcitizensofpyongyanginseoul_202002

But don’t you know Oisin? That this is an expression of the DPRK’s ethos of Juche self-reliance and green living?

Or some such bullshit…. Ha! Quite literally!! :D

Not to worry, the North Korean propganda spin on this will magically appear soon to enlighten you.

Jebus. I really should start charging people for this clairvoyance I appear to possess. It’s almost like I can predict the future.

Alas I won’t do that, because I possess a moral compass that prevents me from profiting from such shenanigans…or from supporting totalitarian dictatorships designed to preserve the power of one family.

US ruling class:- Trade with N.Korea and you can’t trade with the US or its Asian vassals.
You :- “NK must be very short of energy resources”.

It’s almost like there is an inability to join the dots.

Roll on BRICS and an end to this law-of-the-jungle.

Propaganda is just a neutral term for information. The US & previous empires utilise 100% deceitful information in their propaganda (billionaire owned & controlled media) thus they are the ones with zero credibility.

Look at the way Western MSM have downplayed the US genocide in Palestine with their headlines, framing & styling. This genocide is mask off for most (?) people now about what the US really is.
Imagine buying the US/Western narrative on NK totalitatianism, now, from the country that slaughtered 25% of its prewar population 70 years ago. Surreal doesn't even begin to describe that viewpoint.

To justify you “totalitarianism” claim, you would have to answer below:-

“I trust the UN/HRW/AA reports on human rights in NK, even though they are based entirely on allegations from US security state cut-outs and the US/ROK $$$ defector industrial complex because

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Oh but Lucien, I ensure you that not I only do I know what a discussion forum is, but I can also form a definition that serves the topic of this thread.

A Discussion Forum is a place where you can discuss, among other things, how much of a bell-end Kim Jong Un is…*without* getting yourself or 3 generations of your family thrown into a prison camp for the rest of your days…(or what’s left of them once you are in there).

We can do that here my dear 동무 without danger. Just try to do that same in North Korea.

And yet South Korea manages to be a much more advanced, much more prosperous, and much more democratic country than North Korea, without needing to get all precious about their leaders and banning any humour.

Do you really expect Irish people to be impressed by a "culture" that outright bans mockery and humour? Look around you. This is a country with a long and continuing history of ripping the P out of its politicians. (Halls Pictorial Weekly, Scrap Saturday, Giftgrub etc etc etc). North Korea sure looks a total "shithole" of an administration in this regard from an Irish perspective.

Like yourself, they'd be laughed out of it if they tried that on in a free and democratic country like Ireland. Particularly in Ireland.

That’s another North / South comparison worth considering. Despite coming from the same root culture prior to seperation, there is a notable difference to how both sides relate to political leaders. In South Korea the people can and have soured on their elected leaders if they do a bad job. One example in particular comes to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Park_Geun-hye?wprov=sfti1#

Park Geun-hye was President of South Korea during the Sewol Ferry Disaster, and notably did an incredibly piss poor job at leading during that event (and might have even frustrated any hopes of saving the kids on board). This triggered a public backlash that culminated in her impeachment from office due to corruption. She isn’t the only South Korean President to be removed from office either, it has happened a couple of other times. Point is, in South Korea a president can and will be removed from office for letting the country down. By impeachment or the ballot box, this is how a functioning democracy works. The Presidnecy does not give the holder magical god-like protection from critique.

But what about North Korea? Well, if we ignore the fact that the embalmed corpse of Kim Il Sung is still technically the President of North Korea; the state has had all of 3 men leading the country, all of whom are in the same family. When we talk of who would be next in line to lead North Korea, you’ll notice there’s little to no talk of any kind of new leader working their way up the ranks of the WPK to become the new leader…no…there is talk of which of Kim Jong Un’s kids will succeed him. That’s because North Korea went and resurrected Feudal Korean Empire rule, with some stars added to make it all seem… «Communist». The North Koreans have a King and that King may never be besmurched or you and your family will pay dearly for it. They will never be held to account, corrected for doing a bad job or expected to earn their role beyond being a male born into the family (and not getting caught going to Tokyo Disneyland)

That is the stark difference between the Koreas. In the South you can freely disagree with the President and even protest to the point of their removal from office. But in the North….don’t you dare even think it…or you will pay.

You did notice the bit where I mentioned that the South Koreans removed their President from office for being crap at the job? Didn’t you?

I noticed the bit where you didn’t even respond to the whole Royal installation of the Kims and how they are so protected from such Democratic….*expression*
But we can’t really pull on that Jenga piece now can we?