I feel your pain comrade. Reading the history of the Korean war was an experience I found deeply upsetting in the sheer scale of violence subjected to those people in what was a blatantly racist war and what most of the people (outside US) considered a blatantly racist war - even in 1950
Then the US and it's puppet state practice invading DPRK every year through "military exercises" whilst blockading their ports. The same bastards that lived warm and carefree whilst collaborating with the Japanese then the Americans while Kim Il Sung was fighting Japanese then American imperialism in -40c winters in conditions as close to hell on Earth as you can get.
There is a lot of cognitive dissonance in imperialist nations though. They assume that DPRK government is illegitimate purely because they are poor...Yet somehow their government is legitimate despite committing mass murder every year all around the world since 1945.
There is a every reason to be positive for future of DPRK though. They've secured themselves under the most incredible US Aggression and now have ICBMs. A trade route will be opened up to China soon as DPRK bargains with its ICBMs and China itself is strengthened against US imperialism.
We will see DPRK be a prosperous place in the future as they partake in the Asian economic boom - particularly with the signing of the RCEP
I would recommend reading what the DPRK has published however I will also put bourgeois historians as enough time has passed for bourgeois historians to be truthful about what the US and its puppet state did (Bourgeois historians seem to be able to tell the truth 70 years after an incident - when practically everyone who believed the imperialist lie is already dead)
For the most part I don't rate any Western bourgeois historians on the Korean war. Their books are entrenched under the lens of Western imperialism and bourgeois world view while calling the claims of biological warfare which are now confirmed as "communist propaganda"
Bruce Cummings - Korean War (this book is important. IT shows that the South Koreans committed massacres 6 X the rate of North Koreans and the North Koreans were more selective in their reprisals. It also shows how the US filmed South Koreans committing massacres and atrocities then took the footage back home and told the world these were north koreans)
Western Independent Media sources
This article confirms what the North had said all along - that the US used biological warfare against them
What do you mean not found? It's literally in their constitution :
Article 19. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea relies on socialist relations of production and on the foundation of an independent national economy.
Article 20. In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea the means of production are owned by the State and social, cooperative organizations.
Article 21. The property of the State belongs to all the people. There is no limit to the property which the State can own. All natural resources, railways, air transport service, post and telecommunications establishments, as well as major factories and enterprises, ports and banks of the country are owned solely by the State. The State shall protect and develop on a preferential basis State property which plays the leading role in the economic development of the country.
Article 22. The property of social, cooperative organizations is collectively owned by the working people involved in the organizations concerned. Land, farm machinery and ships, as well as small and medium-sized factories and enterprises may be owned by social, cooperative organizations. The State shall protect the property of social, cooperative organizations.
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I feel your pain comrade. Reading the history of the Korean war was an experience I found deeply upsetting in the sheer scale of violence subjected to those people in what was a blatantly racist war and what most of the people (outside US) considered a blatantly racist war - even in 1950
Then the US and it's puppet state practice invading DPRK every year through "military exercises" whilst blockading their ports. The same bastards that lived warm and carefree whilst collaborating with the Japanese then the Americans while Kim Il Sung was fighting Japanese then American imperialism in -40c winters in conditions as close to hell on Earth as you can get.
There is a lot of cognitive dissonance in imperialist nations though. They assume that DPRK government is illegitimate purely because they are poor...Yet somehow their government is legitimate despite committing mass murder every year all around the world since 1945.
There is a every reason to be positive for future of DPRK though. They've secured themselves under the most incredible US Aggression and now have ICBMs. A trade route will be opened up to China soon as DPRK bargains with its ICBMs and China itself is strengthened against US imperialism.
We will see DPRK be a prosperous place in the future as they partake in the Asian economic boom - particularly with the signing of the RCEP
What books would you recommend?
HI Comrade and @LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA,
I would recommend reading what the DPRK has published however I will also put bourgeois historians as enough time has passed for bourgeois historians to be truthful about what the US and its puppet state did (Bourgeois historians seem to be able to tell the truth 70 years after an incident - when practically everyone who believed the imperialist lie is already dead)
For the most part I don't rate any Western bourgeois historians on the Korean war. Their books are entrenched under the lens of Western imperialism and bourgeois world view while calling the claims of biological warfare which are now confirmed as "communist propaganda"
Western Bourgeois sources
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-war-crime-north-korea-wont-forget/2015/03/20/fb525694-ce80-11e4-8c54-ffb5ba6f2f69_story.html
Bruce Cummings - Korean War (this book is important. IT shows that the South Koreans committed massacres 6 X the rate of North Koreans and the North Koreans were more selective in their reprisals. It also shows how the US filmed South Koreans committing massacres and atrocities then took the footage back home and told the world these were north koreans)
Western Independent Media sources
This article confirms what the North had said all along - that the US used biological warfare against them
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-long-suppressed-korean-war-report-on-u-s-use-of-biological-weapons-released-at-last-20d83f5cee54
DPRK sources
The US Imperialists Started The Korean War
http://www.korean-books.com.kp/KBMbooks/en/book/politics/4025.pdf
The Korean War - An Unanswered Question
http://www.korean-books.com.kp/KBMbooks/en/book/politics/4020.pdf
KOREA-THE 38TH PARALLEL NORTH
https://archive.org/details/Korea-38th
Japans War Crimes - Past and Present (to understand how US took over Japans role in Korea after ww2)
http://www.korean-books.com.kp/KBMbooks/en/book/politics/4021.pdf
Thanks, comrade
Thank you very much!
I'm interested in some reading as well
Ran across this the other day. It might be useful for reaching some people.
ctrl+F: "Means of Production" NOT FOUND
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What do you mean not found? It's literally in their constitution :
Korea’s Means of Production are held socially. What is your point?
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