But what the US did/does isn’t an unrelated wrong to the question of what’s wrong with NK. Why’s it a poor backwater country? Maybe it’s because it was devastated by a war and then blockaded from the rest of the world so it didn’t have access to trade. Why do they have such a paranoid defensive stance when it comes to dealing with the world or potential dissenters in the country? Maybe it’s because there is a super power actively out to destroy them and they’ve seen what that super power has done or tried to do to a lot of other countries with leftist movements. Why is the US making them an enemy? The claim that it’s because it’s a dictatorship doesn’t really ring true when you know the US has backed brutal dictatorships both in the Korean War and elsewhere in the world because they better aligned with their geopolitical interests than a communist state would.
I don’t know if it’s some perfect place either. I just don’t think it’s right to form your opinion based on info that’s being filtered through the propaganda of the country that’s actively opposed to the country. So much of what we’re told about NK seems too absurd to believe unless you’ve already bought into the narrative that they’re a cartoon villain country. So I can’t specifically say I support the particulars of the NK gov because it’s hard to know what’s true about it. But I feel confident history justifies my opposition to US attempts to interfere in people’s rights to self determination.
What publication/news source would you recommend for information regarding North Korea? Normally I try to go with refugee stories or South Korean media where possible, but they have a big US partnership so I can see why that wouldn’t be the best in a bias sense.
From what we hear from north Korean defectors to Japan and South Korea, it does sound like a bit of a cartoon villain country, but no more unbelievable than Mao’s China, so it’s within reason for me.
If your generals put on 70+ war metals and there hasn’t been a conflict in 55+ years…maybe it’s a cartoon villain military. And I hardly doubt the US relationship is with the intent to destroy them, if the US wanted to destroy them we’d set up a proxy war with insurgents on the inside like we did the other 50 times and we’d stop our food and aid deliveries. I think the country is filled with people who are under the thumb of a leader who has religious god-emperor level brainwashing of previous generations. Despots gonna despot.
North Korea also has a land border with China and Russia; trade could happen between these countries without being affected by the West.
North Korea definitely takes action to save face in the international community and tries to show itself as an independent country, but there is definitely a vibe that the government keeps the people poor as a way to maintain control.
You think people in DPRK are exercising any self determination? They have a hereditary head of state which should indicate that almost no one has any freedom to determine how they are lead.
But what the US did/does isn’t an unrelated wrong to the question of what’s wrong with NK. Why’s it a poor backwater country? Maybe it’s because it was devastated by a war and then blockaded from the rest of the world so it didn’t have access to trade. Why do they have such a paranoid defensive stance when it comes to dealing with the world or potential dissenters in the country? Maybe it’s because there is a super power actively out to destroy them and they’ve seen what that super power has done or tried to do to a lot of other countries with leftist movements. Why is the US making them an enemy? The claim that it’s because it’s a dictatorship doesn’t really ring true when you know the US has backed brutal dictatorships both in the Korean War and elsewhere in the world because they better aligned with their geopolitical interests than a communist state would.
I don’t know if it’s some perfect place either. I just don’t think it’s right to form your opinion based on info that’s being filtered through the propaganda of the country that’s actively opposed to the country. So much of what we’re told about NK seems too absurd to believe unless you’ve already bought into the narrative that they’re a cartoon villain country. So I can’t specifically say I support the particulars of the NK gov because it’s hard to know what’s true about it. But I feel confident history justifies my opposition to US attempts to interfere in people’s rights to self determination.
What publication/news source would you recommend for information regarding North Korea? Normally I try to go with refugee stories or South Korean media where possible, but they have a big US partnership so I can see why that wouldn’t be the best in a bias sense.
From what we hear from north Korean defectors to Japan and South Korea, it does sound like a bit of a cartoon villain country, but no more unbelievable than Mao’s China, so it’s within reason for me.
If your generals put on 70+ war metals and there hasn’t been a conflict in 55+ years…maybe it’s a cartoon villain military. And I hardly doubt the US relationship is with the intent to destroy them, if the US wanted to destroy them we’d set up a proxy war with insurgents on the inside like we did the other 50 times and we’d stop our food and aid deliveries. I think the country is filled with people who are under the thumb of a leader who has religious god-emperor level brainwashing of previous generations. Despots gonna despot.
North Korea also has a land border with China and Russia; trade could happen between these countries without being affected by the West.
North Korea definitely takes action to save face in the international community and tries to show itself as an independent country, but there is definitely a vibe that the government keeps the people poor as a way to maintain control.
You think people in DPRK are exercising any self determination? They have a hereditary head of state which should indicate that almost no one has any freedom to determine how they are lead.