My co-worker believes the DPRK is a uniquely evil and incompetent state that is in a constant state of famine. They are the most failed and corrupt state.

I told him that DPRK has been incredibly fucked over historically and has been punished on every front for the crime of existing.

Does anyone have any good info I can arm myself with? Or help at articulating something that might get through. He's very much a 'facts and logic' type of lib.

:kim-salute:

  • notthenameiwant [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/31/im-the-only-australian-living-in-north-korea-let-me-tell-you-about-it Show him this. I had a really hard time believing some of what visitors to NK said until I saw this article.

    • NPa [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      holy shit those commenters are frothing racists

      spoiler

      erikus JudasPeckerwood 31 Mar 2019 9.41 39

      "And for my favourite excerpt:

      "I began my master’s in contemporary North Korean literature in April 2018."

      Contemporary North Korean literature? What is that? I imagine it to be something akin to contemporary Christian Rock but with the references to Jesus replaced by odes to the Kim family. "Oh, Dear Leader, you are my salvation.", "Praise the Dear Leader! Praise Him!""

      Can't even imagine North Koreans as full people with internal lives and creative impulses, they're all just soulless automatons repeating slogans that their leaders tell them (hey wait a minute is this projection again)