South Korean President Lee Jae Myung pledged this week to go after “far-right” critics both at home and abroad, following his recent White House summit with President Trump. The move has raised alarm among U.S. officials over potential infringement on free expression and transnational repression tactics.
Lee met with Trump on Aug. 25 at the White House to discuss trade, defense, shipbuilding and other strategic issues. But tensions were visible — Lee stayed at a hotel instead of the traditional Blair House, was greeted by lower-level officials, and left without attending a formal state dinner.
Don’t defend fascist North Korea it’s not a good look
I wonder how NK became NK
All we can say of NK is we know fuckall in the west, and the brief conversations I personally have had with people who’ve been there weren’t particularly illuminating.
If you have a strong opinion on a subject you have weak data on, maybe do some introspection.
Um there is quite a lot of information from defectors.
Also a large population being hard to get information about is an enormous red flag.
I’m curious about the brief conversations?
There’s a lot of propaganda. There’s also real footage of real people living their normal lives in North Korea, believe it or not.
My favorite is this complete jackass who posts shorts on TikTok of Korean people just doing normal things and the commentary is “look at these actors, they’re all acting to shop in the grocery store, they’re all acting to play basketball, they’re all acting to be looking at cars in a showroom, all acting for tourists” and the comments are just people like you who swallow propaganda without a second of reflection. They’re just people who look confused when a white guy starts recording them and speaking English.
North Korea is not what you’ve been told it is, it’s an economically suppressed nation being punished for resisting American imperialism.
https://youtu.be/2BO83Ig-E8E
North Korea is ruled by an authoritarian, but South Korea is ruled by fascists, so while you shouldn’t jump to say defend it wholesale, “South Korea best Korea” is propaganda.
Defectors go to prison if they say positive things. They get paid for interviews. This makes them unreliable.
The brief conversations weren’t useful because the people I spoke to were more interested in nature, getting pictures of themselves, and superficial vacation stuff than learning about the people’s lives, political system, history, etc. They didn’t seem to appreciate how utterly foreign NK is/seems to non-chinese.
So knowing that North Korea do things such as rewrite the history on the Korean war to make them look better is not enough to know North Korea is bad or that you can literally be killed for trying to leave if nothing else that’s enough to know they are bad
I don’t know they rewrite history, I’ve never met someone who’s been there and asked that. But its not like the average American’s perception of the war isn’t massively skewed to make themselves look better, if it exists at all.
Because if ypu ask that, while there, you get sent to jail for 10 years.
isnt the us currently doing that? no lover of nk but that’s a weak-ass argument
Yeah obviously there are a lot more and a better argument but it doesn’t make it okay and it’s actually worse that the US with all its power it has over the west is doing the same crap as North Korea isn’t that scary and not something we should just brush off
North Korea’s rewriting of the war where they kicked the imperialist USA’s ass and continue to be victorious is not worse than American/South Korean revisionism where a people separated by the US and USSR and the attempt of one side to reunify the people and end US control was met by sheer brutality and cruelty is reduced to “north Korea invaded with Korea”.
Go back just a little and ask yourself why America had to fuck with Koreans and draw these borders in the first place, why protecting capitalism is such an “good” thing.