North Korea is pretty great and looking at history their nuclear program is completely justified. The US keeps saying "oh just give up your nukes we promise we won't overthow your government and then make your country a US puppet", if you want to see how well that works out look at Libya.
interesting how there is so much 3rd party discourse about dprk, one side saying it's bad while another side says it's good, yet we hardly hear 1st hand experiences. why don't we see at least some north koreans on lemmy or other platforms sharing their personal experiences of living there, telling us whether they think it's bad or good? or why isn't there north korean platform accesibile to the public where non-north koreans can peek into the activities of north koreans? it's pretty much just outsiders arguing with other outsiders with no input from the insiders
You actually can listen to what citizens of the DPRK are saying, it's just difficult to find. The DPRK heavily restricts access to the global internet because they are under intense siege, but people visit the DPRK frequently (less so in the post-COVID years but steadily increasing over time), and citizens of the DPRK visit neighboring countries like China as well.
I mean, objectively, the dprk is largely underdeveloped which is enough for me to say i wouldn't want to live there (and yes it doesn't help that the entire world hates them and wont leave then alone). Last I knew lots of housing was getting built in rural areas though, which is good.
They did have to basically start developing from scratch after the US and its allies basically genocided them in the Korean war
True.
