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.

    • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      It is. I've been trying to chase down any actual laws on succession, and it appears that the hereditary status of head of state is informally accomplished through the position of Suryong (and lets be clear that the great man theory of Suryong is fucked up as hell and not communist in the slightest, regardless of how heredity itself is related to it) determining inheritance, but even that is not made legally apparent. Not that one can swing a stick at English sources without finding either western academics or NGOs saying what law contains without quoting the law. Japanese sources are, predictably, worse.

        • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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          2 years ago

          I'm trying to tease apart primary and secondary sources, which is a total pain in the ass and makes doing any useful research next to impossible. What I can see is a problem inherent to all regimes of a tension between law and practice, wherein the ways in which the law behaves seem to tail the law itself. That said, because everything in English comes from dogshit sources, I can't tell what's real and what's shit. And my dive into Japanese sources was worse and gave me a headache.