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.
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.