The comments are more of a mixed bag than usual, with user incogburritos singlehandedly leading the charge in undoing decades of ignorance and American propaganda by having a quick education on Korea
Engaging with libs on North Korea is so tiring. I salute anyone who can put up with it.
TIL there are no frogs or birds in DPRK because they have eaten them all because communism no food
The DPRK's SAM grid is specifically tuned to shoot down any and all migratory birds that pass over the border. The people are forced to work long, hard hours without breaks knee-deep in the frog ranches, hand picking tadpoles. Every citizen is given a barrel of DDT and an outdoor cat and told to just go ham.
Yes actually lol. I don't remember it well bc I saw it soo long ago, but they did one that I think was bad. Its on YouTube
https://youtu.be/24R8JObNNQ4
There ya go lol
Some topics I've brought up in similar threads that have gotten positive responses:
- America's brutal role in the Korean War, especially its widespread indiscriminate bombing and biological warfare
- The fact that South Korea was a U.S.-backed dictatorship until the 80s or 90s
- U.S. suppression of elections when it looked like communists would win
Americans don't know shit about the Korean War (it's literally called "the forgotten war" here), and between that and it being far enough in the past you can get some people to see past the propaganda. You're still not going to get much traction on the DPRK today, at least not in the short term, but you have to start chipping away somewhere.
I think the gap between what people know about Korean history (either nothing or propaganda) and the reality of it is why you can get some movement in the right places.
The ROK literally slaughtered a city as late as 1980 with American approval but yeah the DPRK is the evil one
I'd like to be hopeful but it looks like the vast majority of the comments are "this is propaganda" (as if western military monuments are innocent apolitical memorials) and "'Best Korea' is starving, lol" (funny considering the US also has starvation and poverty but they don't have the excuse of being embargoed by the western world). Not really turning tides as far as I can see.
People who believe life in DPRK is sitting on a log eating bugs while being forced at gunpoint to watch military parades on the town's only 40 year old soviet television are truly experts in identifying propaganda.
Most of the comments were shit, but some of them weren't and those statues are cool as fuck :bloomer:
It's certainly not impossible, thousand sof people in Eastern Europe long for the "good old" USSR/communist days. Not the edgy kid smind you but the old people who lived through it and were liberated...people be weird
For the love of God just end it, end it all
For a split second I thought (hoped?) that they meant "lived through it and were liberated (by it)"
They were liberated from their jobs, their homes, their healthcare, their gender equality etc.
A small price to pay for having the possibility of enjoying Pizza Hut.
Imperial Core: Starves a population by ruining their country.
People in the Imperial Core: "Communism doesn't work. See how they're suffering over there?!"
The propaganda towards North Korea is always so over-the-top and people still believe most of it without question.
Sadly, you pull one layer of propaganda and another takes its place. They’re now poisoning the waters for people learning about the war by painting the DPRK as the unjustified aggressors.
Syngman Rhee and his cronies: *massacres hundreds of thousands of suspected dissidents*
North Korea: *intervenes and tries to depose the US-installed dictatorship*
Liberals to this day: :surprised-pika:
Love to scroll through all the dumb 'NK is starving, kin personally ate all the food' and gaze upon a comment that is literally just "they all look the same" that is upvoted, with not a single reply calling it out
"But the statues are for propaganda" :wojak-nooo:
Lmfao I'm glad someone pointed out that like literally every goddamn statue is a form of propaganda. I think lots of folks don't understand what the word actually means and just assumes propaganda = bad but patriotism = good (cause we can't admit that the US using statues is propaganda, it's patriotism, mmmk sweaty)
So many DPRK understanders in that thread, holy shit. There is some pushback.. at least.
