interesting how there is so much 3rd party discourse about dprk, one side saying it’s bad while another side says it’s good, yet we hardly hear 1st hand experiences. why don’t we see at least some north koreans on lemmy or other platforms sharing their personal experiences of living there, telling us whether they think it’s bad or good? or why isn’t there north korean platform accesibile to the public where non-north koreans can peek into the activities of north koreans? it’s pretty much just outsiders arguing with other outsiders with no input from the insiders
You actually can listen to what citizens of the DPRK are saying, it’s just difficult to find. The DPRK heavily restricts access to the global internet because they are under intense siege, but people visit the DPRK frequently (less so in the post-COVID years but steadily increasing over time), and citizens of the DPRK visit neighboring countries like China as well.
I mean, objectively, the dprk is largely underdeveloped which is enough for me to say i wouldn’t want to live there (and yes it doesn’t help that the entire world hates them and wont leave then alone). Last I knew lots of housing was getting built in rural areas though, which is good.
They did have to basically start developing from scratch after the US and it’s allies basically genocided them in the Korean war
True.
Ok go there then right now :) seriously go bring back photos of your trip
Here are some cool ones I’ve found! Can’t visit, unfortunately, but there are people who can and have taken some cool pictures.
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Really pretty architecture too!
I love when you guys say shit like this because it shows that you think the DPRK is like, a Bosch painting and not a real place. It’s such a comical level of racism and distance from reality that I just kind of pity you.
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Go back to reddit
I’ve seen this image before in a Christian nationalist context and I’ve found it really funny how light pollution is their metric on how good the country is
DPRK Glazing wasn’t on my Lemmy bingo card for today.
Why not?
That’s it. I’m done with Lemmy. What the fuck is this communist dictator apologist propaganda?
That’s quite the point of lemmy, block instance you don’t want to interact with, or better, open up to views that are not curated by US
If you want to be spoonfed propaganda by Mossad/CIA/MI6 by all means go back to reddit
Upvoted for fucking off, now follow through coward.
Don’t come to comms on lemmy.ml if you are not ready to have the truth shown to you.
The “truth” that North Korea are good guys? Are you fucking kidding me
I used to be like you a few years ago.Then I started looking into the history of the DPRK more. I learned about the Korean war, how the US killed around 20% of the North Korean population. The orders were to shoot anything that moves, combatant or not. Every building, dam or other piece of infrastructure still standing up was to be bombed. Is it any wonder a highly militarized society grew out of these circumstances, one that will do whatever it takes to not suffer another genocide?
Also, did you know the word ‘brainwashing’ has first been invented during the Korean war to describe American soldiers that had been in North Korean captivity? Many were treated quite well and even received education on American imperialism and communism, and when released they started telling everyone how the Americans were actually the bad ones and how communism really is the way forward for the world. Before that, American media had been running a campaign telling everyone North Korean communists were slaughtering American captives by the thousands, so obviously they had to pretend that those released American soldiers weren’t acting out of their free will and they had to blame it on some advanced ‘Asian mind control’ and they invented the term ‘brainwashing’. You can look that up if you don’t believe me, just search ‘brainwashing’ on Wikipedia, it’s right on top of the page.
There’s a lot more that I could say but I’ll leave it at that. I don’t think the DPRK is that particularly great or a country I’d like to live in, but it’s too simplistic to just paint them as this anomaly in world history, this country that turned into an evil dictatorship overnight for no reason.
If you’re interested, I would recommend the book ‘Everyday life in the North Korean revolution’. It’s a study of how regular North Koreans experienced the revolution right after liberation from Japanese occupation, how everyone was zealously working on building a new communal society as an alternative to capitalism.
