Truly incredible to see everything that the DPRK has gone through since the end of WWII, and to now see the country doing better than ever.
I dream of being able to see it for myself one day
Same. I only wish i had a Russian or Chinese passport, that would make visiting the DPRK so much easier…
They are right to be suspicious of Westerners of course. Keeping out the spies and saboteurs is worth the inconvenience to the very tiny minority of Westerners like us who are sympathetic to the DPRK and just want to visit with genuine good intentions.
The advantages of having Iranian relatives, and relatively easy access to obtaining a passport. Though, due to my field of study, I imagine I’d need to be careful with my travels (you’re literally supposed to give a signature saying that you have no connection to nor will have connection to Iran, China, Russia, the DPRK, or Syria, when you apply for certain research positions in nuclear science).
Let me in, please! I can play American villains in your movies!
The country that cares about those things doing better with them than the one that doesn’t, who could of foreseen.
Our appreciation of the Korean people, the Juche system, and Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un increases with every passing day.
When I wrote this the other day: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/12545329/8587932
I almost wrote at the end a general statement along the lines of “as time goes on and westerners start to realize they’re becoming woefully behind the rest of the world in development and living standards.” But I was like, well, China is the one I can confidently say that about, so I will use them as the example. The DPRK also came to mind for some reason, but I wasn’t sure.
Well now I know. It is indeed more than China that is pulling ahead.
Though also, anywhere beating the US specifically in healthcare seems very easy; whatever edge it may have still compared to some countries in medical professionals or scientific study, gets extremely stunted by the system being almost entirely subsumed by capitalist profiteering. The empire makes so much of (potential) value that goes to waste because people can’t afford it. Like all the food in stores that gets thrown away.
Then like I think about this article about an org opposing UBI: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/12551121
Sometimes it feels like the US is just this unhinged place that got so high on its own supply, it went straight past class warfare strategy into class warfare for the sake of it because commies scary or something. Like the fall of the USSR left this vacuum where the US had all this anti-communist energy and little to burn it on, so it just became scattershot anti-everything and now it’s gradually collapsing in on its own lack of continuity over anything.
But I may be underplaying how unhinged it was since the beginning by putting it in that way, I’m not sure. I mean, there’s calculated awful and then there’s chaotic awful, and they are not the same.
For me, DPRK is more impressive than China. They managed to avoid making any major compromises, and they survived an absolutely brutal siege while retaining a high level of technology, and figuring out how to be largely self sufficient. And now they’re finally thriving having navigated an incredibly difficult period. China managed to take a much easier road integrating itself into the global capitalist system. It allowed China to develop very rapidly, but also introduced many contradictions in the process. Ultimately, I think both DPRK and China made rational choices based on their material circumstances, but DPRK had a much harder path to navigate.
the face i make when i was cooking up some bullshit in the kitchen but then i hear the door unlock and mom comes in with pizza
this actually happened, i made oatmeal and she told me to piss in it
pizza is better than oatmeal anyway
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