this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
345 points (94.3% liked)
World News
32315 readers
1217 users here now
News from around the world!
Rules:
-
Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
-
No NSFW content
-
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's pretty hilarious that any person would call the totalitarian, chronic food shortage stricken, ostracized North Korea "the Good Korea"
It's only hilarious if you're highly propagandised and have never examined any of the absolutely ridiculous propaganda that has led you to feel the way you do about them such as:
Using anti aircraft guns for executions ("according to south korean media" lmao)
They have to push the trains
They all have to get the same haircut
Or that they're aggressive or something? Like what? How many wars has Korea been in since the US killed 1 fifth of its entire population in the biggest post-holocaust genocide the world has ever seen?
The shit you believe is ridiculous, why do you believe this shit? Why have you never actually said "that sounds fucking stupid"? You don't examine anything critically at all. You just go with the flow because you've seen everyone else be hyper negative about it and never really actually stopped and thought about any of these utterly ridiculous things.
In the meantime, the US is responsible for starting 205 out of 248 conflicts between ww2 and 2010. And yet the DPRK is supposedly a bad rogue state? You're out of your mind, you do not apply the same principles to one of these countries vs the other, you are guided by FEELS based on whatever propaganda has successfully taken hold in the population. You aren't really guided by facts or real accessible information we have via the worldbank data and the UN.
i wonder why a country under economic sanction from the US & its allies for decades might have economic trouble. i wonder why they're rude to the US after the US bombed and murdered their people for 3 years & still occupy the southern half of their country
You live in the largest, most expensive propaganda machine that's ever been created by man
You're talking about a country and an ideology that propaganda machine has been willing to burn the world with nuclear hellfire to contain for a hundred years
Learn about the things you're talking about. "The forgotten war"
Yes. North Korea is and has always been the good guys.
You should move there and leave the internet to the rest of us then. Why keep hanging out in the giant propaganda machine, right?
That's impossible to believe but you can swallow the idea they tell their people they've dug up unicorns. You believe they make everyone have the same haircut as the dictator but you can't believe that an enemy of a country currently assisting and giving protection to a genocide could be the good guy.
No they don't, actually. And the way you brush off someone asking you to learn something with a vacuous smug affectation should be your first clue that you are indeed uneducated at least.
Grunge is dead. "I don't care everything sucks" is infantile. Everyone has seen the 'both sides it's complicated taking a position is a sign of mental illness' bullshit enough at this point. It's a trick to feel smart that doesn't work anymore. Get a new bit.
"The forgotten war" refers to the Korean war. I'm asking you to learn about the Korean war.
"Contender" "destroying" oh my god please shut up
Why though? What makes you think that other than "in bad country it is bad" ?
What actual things do you know about this country that drives you to have such an emotional reaction? Do you have this reaction about any south american countries or african countries? Many of them are capitalist countries that are significantly worse off for their people. Why is your emotional reaction significantly different for this one in particular?
The answer is propaganda. Your assessment is not a levelheaded on based on any real educated understanding of the data in comparison with other countries. Your assessment is based on feels acquired through the popular beliefs. Guess where those popular beliefs come from? The same place yours have come from, with the same level of understanding that you have. It's ignorant feels all the way down. Created by the strongest media propaganda machine ever devised in history.
Is any of this to say that it's all fucking rosey over there? Fuck no. Most of us are not juche and believe in a mixed market approach like what is being undertaken in Cuba, Vietnam, or China. We mostly have large criticisms of the isolated approach. But does that mean we buy into all the bullshit spread in the west and perpetuate it uncritically? Also no. That's what you're seeing here. People countering the utterly ignorant western bullshit liberals spew isn't an explicit endorsement of the country, but an attempt to get people to calm the fuck down about it and look at it in a more measured way.
Read any books written by Bruce Cummings
They genuinely are the good guys.
Uncritical support to the DPRK in its heroic struggle to rid occupied Korea of the genocidal US Empire. Uncritical support to the Juche ideology and its implementation.
It's pretty hilarious that you're so smug and up your own ass you pretend to not understand that other political ideologies exist that may differ from your own. So full of yourself and your own self aggrandizement that you can't type a sentence without presenting it in such a way as though the other person is so stupid for not seeing things your way. Take your smarmy ass back to reddit. No one likes nor wants you around on their forums
“Authoritarianism” is a buzzword used by people who think that a government which does anything beyond letting itself get railed by corporations is overreaching, come up with better material
Define authority. All governments utilise authority.
Post hog, liberal.
I can't help being
. This is why no one actually likes you. Die alone.
Sorry, my bad.
"Best Korea" it is.
90% of Gazans experience severe food insecurity whereas 30% of israelis are obese. Whos the "good" country? the fat asses or the ones starving them?
Yeah, nobody can be morally good if they're poor and ostracized. Certainly not some guy who started a religion that underpins much of Western morality to this day.
Uh oh folks we got ourselves a propaganda consumer!
Wild to me how many replies you're getting that defend North Korea. A failed state that has a starving population with no freedoms and is completely ostracised from most of the world. By choice.
This is not correct. Food security in the country has drastically improved and continues to improve - FAO data - Unicef data - both support this position.
No? The reason it's ostracised is a UN vote that was successfully passed that has never been challenged since because the DPRK is not in or allowed to join the UN, any attempt to would be immediately veto'd by the west. This is called 1718.
You see, this here is a problem. You consider simply stating factually true things that people are generally unaware of to be "defending north korea". You live in ignorance and seek to maintain that ignorance in other people rather than view the situation in a more balanced and academic way.
The DPRK is in the UN. Unless you mean the UNSC, but even if it were in the UNSC they wouldn't be able to challenge the blockade resolution.
Post was written at 4am. Genuinely not sure what I meant. No challenge can be made to resolution 1718 though because it includes the requirement for the DPRK to stop developing nuclear weapons and icbms, and that's a non-option.