Outcast9428 wrote: ↑February 24th, 2023, 12:35 am
@Mercer
If you want to know what North Korea is really like... Watch this documentary about somebody who actually escaped from North Korea. It also interviews other people who came from there.
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Listen, I have insane levels of yellow fever, I love Asians to an absurd extent. And I still think North Korea is the most evil country on Earth. You simping for this absolute dystopia just goes to show how irrational and detached from reality you've become....
I think here in Japan we are good informed what is going on in North Korea. While North Korea is the only country worldwide which has no diplomatic relationship with Japan, there is a presence of North Koreans who operating many businesses, there are North Korean schools, a North Korean Association called Chongryon 총련, which keeps ties with North Korea, operating similar to an embassy.
North Korea remains a big problem for Japan, and there is no progress at all. Despite isolated there is plenty of information available about North Korea in many details. In South Korea alone there are living more than 30.000 North Koreans, who made the escape from their country and they all tell you horrible stories. There is no reason to doubt them.
North Korea has now about 26 million people, in the capital are living more than 3 million citizens, it is a dictatorship which consists maybe of a elite of 1.5 million people or so, who enjoy a very good life - but the huge majority of North Korean citizens is living under very poor conditions.
The justice system is cruel, there might be more than 200.000 prisoners, and everybody who is suspected of any kind of wrongdoing will be quickly executed. This total control includes even members and relatives of the government.
You might argue, that Asia is not peaceful at all, Japan did many cruel things in the past, but after a few years all was over, same with Cambodia and other countries, but nowadays nowhere it is like in North Korea and this is going on since generations.
South Korea changed, it's still not the dreamland of course - but you cannot compare it with the North.
Also Japan changed, and also countries like Cambodia are now in a better shape as before.
How is this even possible, why does North Korea not change to be better, to a more open society?
I think, there are 2 reasons for that:
First of all, North Korea is not a chaotic place,
it is internal very good organized, the military is in firm control of everything
and second, it has the full support of the Chinese government.
As long as China does not change its politics, North Korea will just continue as it is now.
90 percent of all what North Korea needs, despite sanctions, is coming in from China
China should do something about it, but if you watch this video, you will understand why I have no hope anything will change...
These politicians in charge, both the Chinese and the North Koreans, lost already any feeling towards its ordinary citizens. Hopeless.