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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by imnotfromkaliningrad@lemmy.ml to c/effort@hexbear.net

*cross-posted from lemmy.ml

sources

on the dprk

on the rok

debunking of anticipated liberal comments

norf korea no food

malnutrition was in fact a thing during the 1990s, though the portrayals of this time period, the so called "arduous march" in westen media are usually exaggerated. mostly omitted by american-allied media is the fact that those difficulties were caused by the inhumane and terrorist western sanctions and embargo against the dprk, as well as the cia-backed illegal and undemocratic dissolution of the ussr. nowadays problems regarding food security have pretty much ceased to exist in the country.

hermit kingdom

first of all, the term itself is nothing but racist, orientalist nonsense, but whatever... the dprk is in no way a kingdom, its democratic model of governance, while obviously imperfect and worthy of (constructive) criticism, is explained in the constitution and infographic linked above.

furthermore, the county is neither "reclusive", nor internationally isolated. the dprk enjoys very friendly relations with fellow aes china, cuba, laos and vietnam, as well as anti-imperialist nations like iran, russia and palestine. the reason you dont hear much from inside the country is due to western press not wanting to report the truth.

no lights, no electricity

the famous "no lights"-photo is a photoshopped fake initially circulated by a southern far-right tabloid. here is an actual image of east asia, including the korean peninsula:

haircut police

unlike south korea, the dprk never had such policies. here is a very entertaining video debunking that myth.

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[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I agree fundamentally, but what about the DPRK here is an "obvious lie"?

[-] Bedulge@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

That the photos of them with the lights off at night are fake. They don't have enough fuel due to sanctions to keep the power on all the time so they often are forced to practice energy rationing and shut down the power for entire cities at night so that they can keep things running during the day.

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Fair enough, hard to verify anything ever, but it makes sense

[-] Bedulge@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Yes. When talking about North Korea I mostly restrict myself to discussing and analyzing their foreign policy. There's just simply not very good information available on their internal domestic affairs and living standards. There's only a handful of things we can say with any definiteness, and even tho, only in generalities rather than specifics. Certainly there is not enough to make some sweeping claim like this image has.

It is true that the Yeonmi Park variety of defector testimony is distorted and full of bullshit. It does not logically follow from this that they therefore have zero corruption or that Kim Jong-un enjoys wide popular support, maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. Maybe corruption is low, maybe it is high. Maybe it's different in different regions, maybe it goes up and down over time. We don't know and you should be skeptical of anyone claiming absolute knowledge about this kind of stuff. I've talked to people with advanced degrees in this topic and this is what they say, there's just a lot we don't know. It's very hard even for people fluent in Korean who spend years studying this stuff to talk definitively about this kind of thing.

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