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A community about anything related to Korea, such as news about the countries (DPRK and south), discussion, photos and videos, the language, etc.

See also: [email protected], which is intended for memes rather than serious discussion of these topics.

The picture of this Lemmy community is magnolia (목란), the national flower of the DPRK. The background picture is a scenery of Pyongyang.

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No imperialist apologia. The DPRK didn't start the war. US imperialist invasion was not justified. Neither are their army bases in south Korea. The sanctions were and are not justified.
Be respectful. The imperialist media likes to describe the DPRK people as completely brainwashed, and that it'd be fine to completely destroy that country in an invasion. Don't act like the imperialist media.
Be skeptical of your sources. Don't trust the media that has been known to report many falsehoods about Korea already. (You may still link to them if they write something interesting / worth reading, just be careful.)

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🚫💵NO TAX IN DPRK DAY🫡🇰🇵 (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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March 21st marks the 50th anniversary of taxation abolition in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), making it the first state in history to do so.

This move, enacted by the Supreme People’s Assembly on March 21st, 1974, completely eliminated the tax system, which had been gradually phased out since the mid-1960s.

President Kim Il Sung emphasized that this decision aligned with the socialist system's principles and liberated the working class from exploitation.

Unlike in capitalist nations, where taxes continuously rise, DPRK's unique socialist approach prioritized people's welfare by eliminating taxation entirely. This bold step underscores the DPRK's commitment to socialism.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to studying the DPRK in depth yet, so I can't recomend any that I've read myself.

I did find this : North Korea, a country study. Supposedly, it is reasonably unbiased, despite being sponsored by the US government (sometimes the US government publishes sensible analyses of enemy nations, it just does so quietly). The economy part starts at page 106

edit: I'm reading the book, and it's about what I expected. Useful information (still quite general) interspersed with partially ideological, and partially materialist explanations of why certain things happened. I guess that's the best you can expect from this type of source.