DPRK to me is a fascinating one and really displays western chauvinism when 'Lefts' want to be able to criticise them.
They were quite literally genocided in the 1950s by America.
Calling it the "Korean war" was just as much a lie as the "Vietnam War" (The Vietnamese call it the "American invasion"). During the Korean war was the landlords and capitalists in the north fled south whilst South Korean communists and proletarians fled north to flee the massacres of leftists under dictator Syngman Rhee [1]
And even during the Korean 'War' (read: Genocide) the South Koreans committed massacres at a rate of 6 X that of the Communists. ( Bruce Cummings, The Korean War, P.202 )
The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless, even by the assessment of America’s own leaders. “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population,” Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, told the Office of Air Force History in 1984. Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed “everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.” After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops.
So after killing off "20 percent of the population" in the north of Korea the Communists in Korea rebuild their country from scratch after the US "didn't leave one brick on top of another" and after the US had moved on to bombing hydroelectric and irrigation dams. They rebuild their country and even surpass the South Korean dictatorship in GDP before US realises they can't have their South Korean puppet state upstaged so begins pumping in huge investments (while DPRK is under blockade).
The Soviet Union collapses and DPRK loses it's military ally and main trading partner and due to the blockade they can't trade on the international market so they shift to a policy of complete self reliance and due to the oil embargo (main component for agricultural farming) they endure famine and hardship during the decade of 1990s.
Yet despite this by 2006 they detonate their first nuclear weapon - ensuring that never again will imperialist dogs do what they did to the Korean people in the 1950s.
I mean...What criticism is some western left hoping to give?
The Koreans in the North have crawled over glass for their sovereignty and independence from bloody thirsty genocidal murderers in USA. And it's not like they're even free from USA now.
They're still completely blockaded and sanctioned by USA. USA still points an unfathomable amount of weapons at them and practises invading DPRK every year in "military exercises" with the puppets in the South
It's like what Parenti says... Any socialist country that comes to power and liberals are immediately asking the next day "why there's no free speech for fascists? Why can't they have their newspapers and organisations?" lol
Well Yeonmi Park told me that they execute people for watching K-dramas.... I mean James Bond films... uh, I mean- shit she's going to a different country idk what it'll be this time
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
DPRK to me is a fascinating one and really displays western chauvinism when 'Lefts' want to be able to criticise them.
They were quite literally genocided in the 1950s by America.
Calling it the "Korean war" was just as much a lie as the "Vietnam War" (The Vietnamese call it the "American invasion"). During the Korean war was the landlords and capitalists in the north fled south whilst South Korean communists and proletarians fled north to flee the massacres of leftists under dictator Syngman Rhee [1]
And even during the Korean 'War' (read: Genocide) the South Koreans committed massacres at a rate of 6 X that of the Communists. ( Bruce Cummings, The Korean War, P.202 )
So after killing off "20 percent of the population" in the north of Korea the Communists in Korea rebuild their country from scratch after the US "didn't leave one brick on top of another" and after the US had moved on to bombing hydroelectric and irrigation dams. They rebuild their country and even surpass the South Korean dictatorship in GDP before US realises they can't have their South Korean puppet state upstaged so begins pumping in huge investments (while DPRK is under blockade).
The Soviet Union collapses and DPRK loses it's military ally and main trading partner and due to the blockade they can't trade on the international market so they shift to a policy of complete self reliance and due to the oil embargo (main component for agricultural farming) they endure famine and hardship during the decade of 1990s.
Yet despite this by 2006 they detonate their first nuclear weapon - ensuring that never again will imperialist dogs do what they did to the Korean people in the 1950s.
I mean...What criticism is some western left hoping to give?
The Koreans in the North have crawled over glass for their sovereignty and independence from bloody thirsty genocidal murderers in USA. And it's not like they're even free from USA now.
They're still completely blockaded and sanctioned by USA. USA still points an unfathomable amount of weapons at them and practises invading DPRK every year in "military exercises" with the puppets in the South
It's like what Parenti says... Any socialist country that comes to power and liberals are immediately asking the next day "why there's no free speech for fascists? Why can't they have their newspapers and organisations?" lol
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Well Yeonmi Park told me that they execute people for watching K-dramas.... I mean James Bond films... uh, I mean- shit she's going to a different country idk what it'll be this time