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Where was the free press in the lead up to the Iraq war? How would you know of all the 'disappeared'? There very well might be, but just by stating that like a
by kimjonsegfault 12y ago
Where was the free press in the lead up to the Iraq war? How would you know of all the 'disappeared'? There very well might be, but just by stating that like a fact, you're repeating something you simply heard in the 'free press', helping spread the narrative. I'm sure there is ideological cleansing there, so is there in any society, especially one under ideological attack. And I'm sure there is way more artillery pointed at North Korea than exists in North Korea.
- laumars 12y agoI have no doubt that western media loves to play up the stereotypes of that region, but having read a few personal accounts from people who have escaped North Korea, those defectors opinions tend to align with a lot of the negative reporting on the DPRK. North Korean concentration camps, for example, are several orders of magnitude more horrific than the US prison camps you compared them to. And it's significantly easier to end up in an NK concentration camp than it is in prison too. Families being rounded up and taken away and/or killed is a common theme discussed by the defectors as well. Now I'm not saying that America (nor any other country for that matter) is perfect. If anything, I happen to agree with you that the US has some hugely hypocritical tendencies. But for all America's faults, the DPRK is still in a whole other of league of bad.