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"Political power comes from televised claps"
-No serious political analysis ever
Being intentionally obtuse doesn't make you look smarter.
Your entire knowledge of the DPRK comes from western propaganda, I'm not the obtuse one here. Tell me how many times you've gone "actually, let's see" and tried to read something about the country? You're analyzing the political structure of a country based on 3 news shots from western sources.
Ah yes, South Korean interviews of North Koreans that have managed to flee the country- classic western propaganda. Fellate yourself less, maybe?
Unironically yes. Russia literally does this with the right wing US émigrées that move to Russia because gay rights are shit there and "they have no woke", these people literally get paid to do such propaganda.
You tankies are a different brand of stupid, aintcha?
South Korean media reports of North Korean defectors are notoriously not trustworthy. North Korean defectors suffer from a lot of stigma if they go to the South and usually struggle to find a job. Tabloids pay them for their stories. Obviously, the taller the tale, the more likely they get a paycheck.
The fact that NK is so closed off means it's hard to disprove a lot of the claims, but we can still know that they're false when they're contradictory. For example, some NK defectors have claimed having KJU's haircut is illegal, others claim it's the only haircut men are allowed to wear. Some claim that abortion is totally banned, others claim that the state forces women to get abortions.
Probably the epitome of this phenomenon is Yeonmi Park. Are you really gonna die on the hill that NK defectors like her are trustworthy sources?
If not uncritically swallowing Radio Free Asia propaganda makes me stupid, I guess I am. Go on believing your fairytales of forbidden/mandatory haircuts, multigenerational prisons and belief in unicorns