>>7282108>And why exactly would "white people" want to hear that?Because the DPRK functions as the Big Bad Other, which legitimizes their (American) imperialist projects. This is self-evident in everyday conversation with Americans and their media (but not just with Americans, and not just with Whites, let me be clear). They could not tell you anything about the history of state of the North, nor even the South, but they will tell you unequivocally that the North is pure, cartoonish evil. Look no further than this thread- the very idea that the South is a military dictatorship (and the South is, of course, the good twin to the evil North) send people into a tizzy. Criticism of criticism of the North is equivalent to "shilling". Information about both these states is geared to a single direction only, existing in a state that is unwilling to attempt neutrality and objectivity.
This shouldn't be a surprise now. Americans have this exact same program, with the exact same results on its citizens, regarding every inconvenient entity in the world, whether it's Iraq, Iran, Cuba, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Bolivia, whomever. It's not just a matter of it being easy to justify militarist domination and chaos by creating the "Axis of Evil", it's necessary, and you and everyone else is falling for the trap /again/. It's not a mistake that Meyers goes to lengths to say that Juche is actually a facade for foreigners and that they are actually, secretly, /Nazis/. Nor that such a fantasy is somehow convincing.
>NK is lucky as they don't have to actually deal with others so they can mostly float off idealism.Sounds like you've got the DPRK in a damned if they do, damned if they don't scenario. It's not enough to simply voice solidarity and say racism and imperialism is wrong but they have to prove themselves to you that they're committed to this. In fact, I agree with the spirit of that, but it's not like their in a position to finance and arm revolutionary groups. That said they historically have done that and humanitarian missions, etc. Semi-recently the DPRK Embassy in London hosts solidarity events and DPRK Q&A sessions, sells books, etc. This video has First Secretary of the Embassy, Thae Yong-Ho, speaking at one such program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AONhMvG_DF0&list=PLZW_cs9Xxx7HLwl7oVe-kY8kVCtGLkKvD&index=8All those Blacks and Arabs and Kurds and Whites around him yet he doesn't seem to adamant about his "cleanliness".
