• penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    but I know of documented cases where South Koreans have been arrested and had their lives ruined for saying they admire Kim Il-sung.

    And this is in no way good and it is authoritarian. My parents both have had visits by cops back in the day because of the wrong apocryphal joke about our own dictator and placed under surveillance. My grandpa had to report to the cops on a regular basis, because one of his sons lived in the West.