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Flagged. Pure propaganda, just as expected from BBC. The sheer amount of emotive epithets is a dead giveaway. It's not even a closed country. It's not hard to
by foverzar 3y ago
Flagged. Pure propaganda, just as expected from BBC.
The sheer amount of emotive epithets is a dead giveaway.
It's not even a closed country. It's not hard to visit (unless you are the US citizen and your own government forbids you to) and there are lots of North Koreans outside North Korea in other Asian countries. There were much more until 2017 UN sanctions, restricting hire of North Korean workers.
To understand the real reason behind the sorrow state of modern day North Korea, one has to simply acknowledge the fact that North Korea has been pushed into isolation by much more powerful actors for more than half-a-century.
It's as simple as that. "Tyrannical rule of Kim Jong Un" has no tangible effect here.
The only tyrannical actor here is an entity trying to achieve its political goals by making North Korea inhospitable.
Unfortunately people are naive and arrogant enough to be convinced that this is actually a good thing, that it's worth it, and that they are actually helping instead of actually being the tyrant. It really strokes their egos - who cares about collateral! And all you really need is a nice narrative, woven of cherrypicked and properly presented pieces of reality.
We're undermining a tyrant here, can't you see we've been doing this to you for generations for your own good? As long as it's a glorious cause, it's clearly all worth it! At the end of the day, if North Koreans want to live decently, they simply have to collapse their country and that evil regime. And don't worry, we'll totally help you how we helped Libya wink-wink /s
- Strom 3y ago> It's not even a closed country. It's not hard to visit So you're saying I can just go into North Korea as a tourist and I won't need a North Korean tour guide? I would like to learn more about this opportunity.
- foverzar 3y ago> So you're saying I can just go into North Korea as a tourist and I won't need a North Korean tour guide? I've said specifically what I wrote and nothing different to that. Moving goalposts? You'll need a guide to enter the country with a tourist visa, but beyond that it's up to your traveler skills, whether you can ditch the guide or where would they bother to go with you. There are also other kinds of visas, that don't imply a guide. Though I imagine it could be more challenging for someone faring from a western country. Convincing them that you are not here for some scandal and could be treated with good faith would probably be an issue. Nevertheless, for most people around the globe visiting Pyongyang is relatively easier than visiting New York. I don't suppose that not being overly tourist friendly equates to being a "closed country", do you?
- Hush5991 3y agoThis is ridiculous. All responsibility lies with Kim Jong-Un. If he wanted to, he could call Yoon Suk-Yeol today, and negotiate a deal to transfer the entirety of North Korea to the ROK in exchange for immunity, asylum in Switzerland, and a couple billion dollars for himself and his friends. He could then continue living his luxurious lifestyle while NK is slowly integrated into the rest of Korea through some variation of "one country, two systems for 50 years". The North Korean people would finally become free.