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Part 2

DPRK for the Palestinian struggle (cont.)

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• DPRK sent soldiers and weapons to Palestinians against Israel in the Yom Kippur war
• Israel considers DPRK an enemy
• DPRK suspected of sending help to Hamas
• DPRK relations with PLO since 60s
• DPRK provides military training for PLO

DPRK - Libya relations

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• DPRK sent arms to Libya before United States coup

DPRK - Vietnam relations

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• DPRK soldiers fought in the Vietnam war against Amerika

DPRK - Ireland

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• IRA-DPRK relations
• In the 80s

DPRK - Zimbabwe relations

• DPRK armed liberation fighter during the Zimbabwan war of liberation
• After liberation, DPRK trained soldiers, and alliance continiues till today

DPRK aiding naxalites

• DPRK possible aiding naxalites

DPRK aiding Hezbollah

• Solidarity of DPRK and hezbollah

Turkey

• Turkish socialists in DPRK

Allende

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• Kim il-sung and allende

Venezuela

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• Comrades in arms. Venezuela and dprk
• Venezuela opens embassy in DPRK in 22 of August 2019, as an "act against US imperialism"

Part 3 -

What about the defectors?

Claims of concentration camps and defectors drama

So, what is the deal with the supposed work camps? Do they exist? If so, are they the horrific things we hear about from profesional defectors i.e (defectors who are paid to lie)?

The three main sources for the lies we hear are Amnesty international, defectors, and the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.

Yep, you guessed it, these orgs and these defectors are paid by and are based in US, and they are nothing more than propaganda tools for obvious reasons.

So, the two main supposed reports and books, are these:

• Hidden gulag
• the amnesty report

A fun fact about these, which is also the same with defectors is that they dont have avidence. They are all supported by testimonies, which cannot be verified, and many times fall apart and the defectors are saying a different thing in monday and different thing in saturday.

:zenz: Doesn’t this tactic sound familiar?

There are also the famous satellite images. You know, those images that can very well be prisons... Is there really a country that has no prisons? I could show you a satellite image from a prison in Norway, you would not distinguish from where it came and what it actually is.

So, there is no evidence. Not a video, images, official sources. Nothing. Just testimonies of people, which often fall apart. Are prisons in DPRK hard? Propably, as in most countries in the world.

Are guards feeding childs to dogs? You could be a racist and a very indoctrinated person to believe this thing without evidence. Also, there is a big number of defectors who want to go back to the DPRK, but you wont hear their stories frequently do you? I really wonder why! :thonk:

Here is some material to read and watch about defectors:

Debunking the defectors and destroy their hopes for oscars for best acting

• North korea lies and truth part 1
• North korea lies and truth part 2
• North korea lies and truth part 3
• Shing dong hyuk exposed
• Yeonmi park: A proven liar
• Yeonmi park: the defector who fooled the world

So, what about that dramatic NK soldier who defected in the south, and the "evil" NoRtH KoReAn soldiers dared to shoot??? Well, he was a murderer. This is why he defected

• Why do NK defectors keep changing their stories?
• South korea pays defectors $86,000 to lie
• South quadrupled the money in 2017, a time of political heat with dprk and the west. I wonder why🤔
• Cash incentives and the western media's endless appetite for shocking stories encourage refugees to exaggerate, Jiyoung Song argues
• Shin dong hyuk recants parts of his story after his father appears alive on tv
• Swiss-born businessman who lived and worked in North Korea for seven years until 2009 has frequently questioned media portrayals of the human rights situation in the country.
• 12 North korean waitresses were kidnapped by Seoul’s spy agency

What about defectors who speak the truth, and many times return back to (or want to) the dprk?

To sum it up, what about the defectors who are not professional liars?

• North Korean defector and her six-year-old son starve to death in South Korea after being denied welfare
• DPRK woman defected to south. She realized that in the south the state does not cover housing, medical treatment, e.t.c. She now wants to go back to DPRK, back to her family, but she not allowed by the south
• loyal citizens to Pyongyang
• Defectors suffer in dept
• Defectors want to return to DPRK
• "I feel uneasy living in the Republic of Korea as I believe people's hearts, not money should be prioritized. My desire to go to the North will not be changed even if the South gives me gold."
• Defectors treated like dirt
• "Everything I said on TV was scripted ... to make North Koreans look barbaric, ignorant and stupid."
• South korea rejects defectors request to go back to north
• North korean defector proud of nuclear weapons, says kim would rather die than give up
• North korea defector to the south, arrested for praising kim jong un
• South korea intelligence agencies lure people from the north to defect
• Couple re-defects in dprk after they were cheated to go to south korea
• "Even though North Korea is poorer, I felt more free there. Neighbours and people help each other and depend on each other."
• Choe in-guk: Son of south korean defectors moves to North
• I wanted to stay in North Korea: American
• After fleeing DPRK, some defectors want to go back
• South's hidden problem: Suicidal defectors
• North korean defector interrupts UN human rights event, pleads to go back to DPRK

Part 4 -

Contemporary economic and food conditions of DPRK

What about the malnutrition, mortality rate, and food issues in DPRK ?

• Death rate by malnutrition in DPRK in 2017 was 1.1 per 100,000 people. Lower that france, mexico or brasil, were the rates were 2.17, 7.50, and 3.99
• Whats new in NK nutrition and why it matters
• Mortality rates diminishing since 2000s
• North korea's food situation: Stable and improving
• Between sanctions, drought, and tension, what is the food situation?

Is DPRK economy collapsing? Quite the contrary, it’s growing!

• The myth of North korean "collapse"
• The economy is growing at the fastest rate since the 90s as of 2017.
• Despite sanctions, North korea's economy in 17 years high in 2016
• The truth about North korea: it’s booming
• DPRK is beating the sanctions
• trillions of dollars in untouched minerals in DPRK.
• Social and economic achievements of North korea
• The present situation in the DPRK
• economy grows 3.7% in 2018
• China - DPRK trade increased
• Re-thinking the DPRK collapse narrative
• How and why the west thinks of DPRK economy wrongly
• No homeless in Pyongyang says defector

Appendix A: What is Juche?

Juche is, in layman's terms, a derivation of Marxism-Leninism with Maoist influences. It was first introduced by Kim Il-Sung at the Meeting of Leading Personnel of the Young Communist League and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League held at Kalun in June 1930.

It is primarily concerned with the laws of the social movement and the development of socialist ideology under the socialist socio-economic system. Marxism-Leninism, as well as Dialectical and Historical Materialism, are assumed by this ideology, so you should have some knowledge about these topics if you want to learn about the Juche Idea.

Kim Jong-Il talks about the foundations of Marxism-Leninism inherent in the Korean revolutionary philosophies and ideologies in On Correctly Understanding the Originality of Kimilsungism:

Kimilsungism was founded and has been developed in the course of safeguarding and embodying the ideological and theoretical achievements of Marxism-Leninism. The Juche Idea itself is an idea discovered in the process of the revolutionary struggle waged under the banner of Marxism-Leninism; it is an idea which has opposed all trends of idealism and metaphysics and strictly adhered to the materialistic and dialectic stand.

The revolutionary theory of Kimilsungism is also a theory which was founded and enriched in the course of protecting the revolutionary quintessence of Marxist-Leninist theory from bourgeois and opportunist theories and creatively applying and developing it in line with the requirements of the revolutionary practice of our times.

The Juche Idea is concerned primarily with elucidating the attributes of man which drive social movement. These are defined as independence, creativity, and consciousness, which complement and require each other. These attributes are explained bit by bit, shown to differentiate man from animals through his conscious, creative activity which frees him from the fetters of nature and society by advancing in the progressive struggle for communism.

If you want to talk about the economic or social policy of the DPRK, the concept you're looking for is primarily Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, not the Juche Idea.

A primary point of the Juche Idea is that each revolution must be carried out by its own people, rather than by a foreign power attempting to dominate the younger revolution towards its own interests.

Kim Jong-Il talks about this in On the Juche Idea:

The revolution in each country should be carried out responsibly by its own people, the masters, in an independent manner, and in a creative way suitable to its specific conditions. Independence and creativeness are the inherent requirements of a revolutionary movement, the communist movement.

Kim Il-Sung is not a god. He has never been such a thing, nor is he regarded by anyone in the country as such. In all my discussions with people from the DPRK, I have heard great respect for Kim Il-Sung. You should understand who he is as a historical actor to understand perhaps why people regard him as important.

Kim Il-Sung was a Communist, a Marxist, and a fierce guerrilla fighter against the brutal Japanese colonial domination over Korea. His entire life, from a young child to the end of his days, was involved in the anti-Imperialist struggle.

He founded the Workers Party of Korea, enacted land reforms to crush the landlord class, dissolved the petty-bourgeoisie class, formed a state and cooperative-owned economy, and established a firm vanguard party which held no patience for infiltrators or revisionists. He commanded the Fatherland Liberation War and maintained Korea's sovereignty and independence from the US Imperialists.

There's so much problematic about viewing the DPRK's struggle against Imperialism as "a myriad series of woes", let alone taking what I assume is a reference to their subjective poverty in comparison to the capitalist puppet nations and attempting to attribute that to perceived failings of ideology rather than as the result of the material conditions of the struggle.

Source: Original comment on :reddit-logo:

Fun fact: The term "juche" was originally coined by Korean anarchists and the revolution itself included many anarchist comrades. Anarchists are one of the leftist tendencies still present in the DPRK to this day.

Part 5:

Hilarious (one wonders how can people believe these) myths, and information about the Kim family

What about "mad-man" Kim Jong Un and his family? Also other myths addressed or debunked, by non pro-dprk, and pro-dprk accounts alike.

• the haircut

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• Why do north koreans revere the Kims? Understanding the North korean leadership objectively
• Is Kim Jong Un a madman? CIA says he is perfeclty rational
• North korean defectors to the south, say that the vast majority of north koreans support kim jong un back in the north
• Kim Jong Un's half brother was assassinated... because his half brother was a CIA informant according to The Guardian
• Is DPRK a hereditary monarchy? It is the contrary according to their constitution
• What about the people crying at the kim's funerals? Cultural reasons. South Korean crying over the death of another president
• Kim jong un has a 78% approval rate...In south korea.
• Kim jong un and DPRK in 2018
• Debunking other myths such as Kim haircut, kim finding unicorns, people executed for stupid reasons, etc etc - surprise they’re often based in racism!
• Kim jong un executing his GF, sending drones to SK, and kim jong un feeding people to dogs, debunked
• Myths and misconceptions on North korea, made by debunked, a non socialist account
• Lies from truman to trump
• The olympics have exposed every US lie on DPRK
• DPRK sexual domestic violence debunked
• Crimes against humanity? addressed, must read!
• Can westerners use the internet? Yep
• Must read:Evidence that most of the lies we hear about DPRK are indeed lies
• The north korean purge that did not happen
• Wannacry? DPRK invites US to investigate inside DPRK. "Show us the evidence"
• Religion in DPRK?
• Smartphones in DPRK?

:reddit-logo: links:

• What about the caste system?
• This is by comrade u/crimsonblade911 some other myths debunked