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Making that argument about, say, Cuba makes plenty of sense to me. Sure, there's a relatively oppressive regime, but they also have made a lot of moves that gen

Making that argument about, say, Cuba makes plenty of sense to me. Sure, there's a relatively oppressive regime, but they also have made a lot of moves that genuinely have the people's interest at heart, and most people's needs are being met. That claim doesn't work when almost half your populace is starving: literally the second most important human need is being failed.

pydry 3y ago
>That claim doesn't work when almost half your populace is starving: literally They're not. This is another consistently manufactured impression - that the famine never ended. They were starving in the 90s but it wasn't like that was deliberate and it ended 25 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine There's a number of ways the media continues to manufacture this impression, including: * Interviews with people who fled North Korea a long time ago - closer to the famine. * Paying North Koreans they can gain access to for good stories - at which point they get some really juicy stories. A small number of these apart under the weight of their own contradictions - the rest, of course, can't ever be verified. * Looking at satellite photos and drawing dubious conclusions (like if there isn't food being imported from China this month that they don't have food). * Looking at trailing indicators of the famine like stunted height. * Comparing everything to South Korea - which has really good metrics even by first world standards - rather than, say, an average middle income or 3rd world country.