After all this I am not really bothered by juche gang posts, whether ironic or not, like damn. South Korea was just indefinitely worse than North Korea, it was like a fucking totalitarian state. It wasn’t until the 80s that the economic situation reversed. I mean I don’t think anyone should support the current regime but when you learn that more bombs were dropped on North Korea per capita than anywhere else in the world, ever, it becomes understandable why they’re seen as a backwards country with no development. The country was literally flattened by US bombing campaigns. And then you learn that Kim il sung gave rights to women while Rhee was murdering suspected communists by the thousands. The US was committing atrocities like No Gun Ri and yet in the common image America and South Korea are the good guys. I mean, fuck, I don’t think I can support the direction that Kim Jong un has taken North Korea in, but after learning this it solidifies my anti American views, there is officially no war after WW2 that America was justified in. I can’t believe that anti Korean War sentiment isn’t as high as anti Vietnam war, more people need to know about this
It’s not necessarily the family part that’s the most distressing, it just seems to me since the Korean War NK went from a revolutionary communist state with surprising liberties to a much more authoritarian state now. I mean obviously it’s expected, but it could be toned down a bit for sure, like so much media censoring really isn’t that necessary. Looking at vietnam which was in a pretty similar situation economic recovery did happen by opening up a little and not completely shutting out the world, and now to this day their covid recovery and such was phenomenal, proving that they have pretty excellent social systems in place.