Ngl I don’t know much about juche or about the conditions in the DPRK. Something about a nation self-isolating and building internally. Ironically, one of my first anti-imperialist lightbulb moments came from The Interview where Kim Jong-Un asks Dave about how US sanctions have impacted the conditions in the country. It was really weird because they never addressed it. I think it was supposed to be a “Kim says something that throws Dave off” and they just happened to hit the nail on the head. Either way, it never went answered and that stuck with me
It’s really hard to know anything about the dprk definitively given the isolation both self-imposed and imposed by the imperial countries.
What we do know is the USA slaughtered like a ridiculous amount of their people and have made it brutally difficult for them to trade. They run trains and other tech from the 80s bc that was the last time they were able to get stuff in from trade and they basically are just trying to repair and upkeep that stuff as much as possible.
If you’re specifically interested in the concepts of juche Il-sungs books are around I’m sure
I always think it’s pretty remarkable that countries like dprk and Cuba have managed to do relatively well under some of the most extreme political oppression that exists.
It’s really hard to know anything about the dprk definitively given the isolation
What isolation? People from there travel all the time. If you're in the US, you could have visited for yourself up until Otto Warmbier died, and if you're outside the US you could have visited up until covid. There are numerous videos online from people in the DPRK, both of official events/festivals/concerts and of average everyday shopping. There are people from the DPRK living in various places and many of them are not your average "defector" grifters.
The narrative that "we just can't know anything :(" is so completely incorrect. It's a regular fucking country and we know that for sure.
I just meant most of the info you’ll see in the imperial core is heavily skewed propaganda. I mean look at Cuba rn there right next door and speak a language widely spoken in the us and there’s still a ton of misinformation about them in mainstream discourse.
And isolated more in terms economics and sanctions.
Ngl I don’t know much about juche or about the conditions in the DPRK. Something about a nation self-isolating and building internally. Ironically, one of my first anti-imperialist lightbulb moments came from The Interview where Kim Jong-Un asks Dave about how US sanctions have impacted the conditions in the country. It was really weird because they never addressed it. I think it was supposed to be a “Kim says something that throws Dave off” and they just happened to hit the nail on the head. Either way, it never went answered and that stuck with me
It’s really hard to know anything about the dprk definitively given the isolation both self-imposed and imposed by the imperial countries.
What we do know is the USA slaughtered like a ridiculous amount of their people and have made it brutally difficult for them to trade. They run trains and other tech from the 80s bc that was the last time they were able to get stuff in from trade and they basically are just trying to repair and upkeep that stuff as much as possible.
If you’re specifically interested in the concepts of juche Il-sungs books are around I’m sure
I always think it’s pretty remarkable that countries like dprk and Cuba have managed to do relatively well under some of the most extreme political oppression that exists.
What isolation? People from there travel all the time. If you're in the US, you could have visited for yourself up until Otto Warmbier died, and if you're outside the US you could have visited up until covid. There are numerous videos online from people in the DPRK, both of official events/festivals/concerts and of average everyday shopping. There are people from the DPRK living in various places and many of them are not your average "defector" grifters.
The narrative that "we just can't know anything :(" is so completely incorrect. It's a regular fucking country and we know that for sure.
I just meant most of the info you’ll see in the imperial core is heavily skewed propaganda. I mean look at Cuba rn there right next door and speak a language widely spoken in the us and there’s still a ton of misinformation about them in mainstream discourse.
And isolated more in terms economics and sanctions.