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North Korea was supposed to be doomed. How did it pull this off?

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[-] Carl@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This isn't even a success story necessarily, it's a return to the norm. NK was more developed than SK until SK's "economic miracle" (read: massive injection of productive forces to improve its usefulness as an imperial outpost) and the collapse of NK's largest trading partner happened in rapid succession to one another.

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the memory holing of how the two Koreas were perceived in the west even 35 years ago is kind of horrifying. The DPRK was almost never mentioned in western media, because the south was a brutal dictatorship that was full of poverty and corruption, while the north was a real success story.

When the south was mentioned, it was almost in the way Saudi Arabia is today, an awful "backwards" place that is bad because of their foreignness but is an important ally in the region, so you're not allowed to question why they are the way they are.

[-] AF_R@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Most east Asian diaspora are extremely bitter and self hating and they don’t know why. But it’s because they fell for the American scam.

Most immigrants would have been better off in their home country, and they know it. They see their old friends from the country living in houses they own, eating delicious culture-rich fresh food, being around family and friends, working 6 hours a day.

Then they get home from their 14-hour shift of unpaid overtime, look around in their shitty rented apartment, budget getting tighter every month, surrounded by hate and violence, isolated, eating ultra processed carcinogenic slop every day.

But hey at least they have iPhone

[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 week ago

This video was hilarious. Spinning every situation with a liberal mindset, "an impossibility".

Any communist watching the DPRK would have know every single thing he spoke of, for years ahead of time.

The DPRK was very obviously improving overtime, it wasn't a sudden victory, it was planned and coordinated effectively.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago

Liberals cannot comprehend planning on a scale larger than one company or longer than one financial quarter

[-] BattlemechPotemkin@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

It really tells how fragmented and unstable a liberal understanding of the world is. They cannot grasp that they are constantly lied to. Instead of re-examining their given knowledge, the conclusion is impossible.

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

It is much easier to just say "I have been lied to this time by people I don't know." than it is to say "I have been lied to and manipulated my entire life by the people who have told me they are trustworthy and only looking out for me my whole life."

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Liberals don't believe the news media is lying to them, only that the news media is incompetent.

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Exactly, they're trustworthy, because they all say that they are, they wouldn't lie about that, because you can trust them!

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

remember GWB's "axis of evil"? where are they now? turns out they are thriving due to this one weird trick that neoliberals don't want you to know!

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I do lol. I was in high school for that shit. Actually by the time axis of evil was a thing maybe college even. Fuckin wild time to be growing up in.

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

I'll believe it when this "secret constitution" is on literally ANY offical DPRK sources. It's not on any of them. I'm not taking my information on what the DPRK's constitution says from the US and South Korea.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

I wonder what the secret hidden real U.S. constitution says

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

it's just a list of phone numbers for epstein and the other networks.

[-] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Written at the back of the Epstein 50th birthday book.

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

I'll have you know that Jim Burgerton of the American Freedom Eagle Institute has on very good authority that the defectors he paid to say it exists say that it exists.

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I don't understand why they had this whole segment about the "new secret constitution" when the striking down of reunification was all very public with the destruction of the Arch of Reunification and public speeches.

The cessation of reunification is smart in that it pops the bubble of the ROK being able to justify its militarization (and subjugation to the US military) through the propagandized threat of the DPRK.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

I suspect it's propaganda built around the knowledge they've got from spies that a rewrite of the constitution has been in the works through their structures. I bet it's not actually finalised and active, hasn't been voted on, is still going through various stages of revision, etc etc. This explains why it's not on any official source, because it's not currently the constitution.

When it finally does get the stamp of approval the west will resoundingly go "SEE! SECRET CONSTITUTION! WE WERE RIGHT!"

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

not necromancy, rejuchenation

[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

Juchenomics

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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