1. There's this KCNA article which has awful homophobic comments

  2. This KCNA article which compares Obama to a "black monkey"

  • This article** does analysis which states that the monkey comparison was merely referring to being a "trickster" which ignores:
  1. This KCNA article which is the worst of them all. The racist comparisons are unmistakable in my opinion.

**The aforementioned analysis article has what I find to be pretty unconvincing excuses for the homophobic comments, the quote, "a disgusting old lecher" is not properly addressed.

I'm willing to hear any possible explanations. I don't know what's going on.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I'm going to say a country that has send military aid to various African countries in their struggle towards national liberation and against apartheid at great material costs to themselves due to sanctions probably doesn't have structural anti-Blackness. Like come on, are we supposed to somehow accuse the DPRK of being racist because of some dipshit editor?

    Yes, there's going to be reactionaries in any society and those reactionaries sometimes weasel their way into positions of prominence. This, however, is insufficient to prove that the society itself is reactionary. The DPRK was straight up training African revolutionaries in overthrowing their white supremacist apartheid regimes, but I guess all of that can be tossed to the trash because of four shitty articles.

    Give me a fucking break.

      • robinn [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        There is a fourth apparently, one from the WPK magazine although I can't find the link. I actually would be interested to find out what happened to the author. The articles are no longer available even on naenara (although a lot of non-controversial ones aren't available either) so its possible there was regret.

    • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      there’s going to be reactionaries in any society

      skill issue tbh, just root them out