Anonymous B replied with this 1 year ago, 19 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,300,448
@previous (D)
They beat it into our heads that Juche is a failure despite a country flourishing in the face of imperialist sanctions.
Every day I hear that our western standards of living are so high and people just choose to go without necessities because they made a "free choice" to "live a different lifestyle". I went to the border during my trip to the south, and what you can see along the DMZ is enough to break anyone's faith in the consumerist mind-trap.
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 4 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,300,471
@1,300,448 (B)
Intriguing. Will research - I'm always curious what the rest of the world looks like. If it's not carpeted in box stores and amazon trucks - is there another way? Can we enjoy life without a constant stream of shiny things?
Anonymous B replied with this 1 year ago, 16 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,300,621
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This is propaganda. North Koreans do not have to handle excrement thanks to their advanced sewerage infrastructure. Juche has provided a world class standard of living that is a torch on the hill, there is no need for the petty games that are normal in the decadent south.
Corporate infighting and a dozen flavors of political parties divide the paleokorean-proletariate.
If you don't believe, go to the DMZ yourself and look across the gap to see with your own eyes. Fake news producers will use isolated sections along the fence and hollywood postprocessing to deceive their domestic livestock.
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,300,641
I like that when you search 'North Korea,' the AI articles are so helpful now - the best times to visit North Korea, the best schools in North Korea... what a time to be alive!
If you really traveled there and went to the DMZ you would have seen the truth, unless you signed up for a planned trip through the ROK puppet tour that shows you a cherrypicked zone they have approved beforehand.
The easiest way to see it on your own is to cross the Imju and find a trail that leads you closer to Kaesong. It isn't hard to find, the city is brightly lit up and there's a lot of activity.
The host family I was with lived like the characters in Parasite, and told me they knew people in their village that had made the trip there and back. Scarcity, crime, and ignorance have been eliminated from the self-sufficient people in the north. All achieved in the face of imperialist sanctions. Another person in the town was a middle manager at an electronics fab, and he told us that they would get piles of books from the North to read, and would copy the industrial designs to produce the same goods in the south.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 1 minute later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#1,300,827
@1,300,821 (B)
Yes, I saw the fake Potemkin village that DPRK set up across the border. No interior of buildings, no actual residents, totally empty. It's not hard to see.
Anonymous B replied with this 1 year ago, 3 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#1,300,830
@previous (A)
Calling something fake is the laziest way to dismiss evidence that doesn't align with your worldview. The north doesn't have money to eat, but somehow all those people are still alive and they have the resources to build elaborate villages just to trick foreigners who's opinion changes nothing about the life they lead? Why? What's the reason?
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 1 year ago, 38 minutes later, 6 days after the original post[^][v]#1,301,728
@1,301,720 (D)
Yep, I've never trolled Minichan in my life. Thanks for pointing that out, especially for something that happened 12 years ago that you can't let go. What's next? Gonna lose your mind over Sergio's Burritos?