Reddit reviews Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
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I feel like sending them The Interview would be counter-intuitive. Send them something like this or something similar.
> bourgeois propaganda
Really?
So, a country that would create Kijŏng-dong, wouldn't even consider telling their citizens that they are required to stay indoors for the filming of something?
As to sources, sources for what? That NK is completely fucked? I needn't look that hard.
Why are enough people attempting to escape that this begins to happen?
"I had to be careful of my thoughts because I believed Kim Jong-il could read my mind."
["He controls his administration exclusively. It operates absolutely by his word. It's an autocracy."](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kim/them/defector.html
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I'm all for defending the Soc\Com view and promoting it, but if you think that NK is working out great and simply being held down by the capitalist majority, you're being ignorant. Take the picture of a pitch black NK surrounded by the lights of Japan, China, and SK. You would have me believe that that's a propaganda job? That they've colored over the actual amount of lights? Who exactly benefits from that? It's not like NK has some vast supply of resources that are highly sought after. They provide nearly nothing to the international community. The Korean was is long over, and the only benefit that NK serves currently is a Buffer between The US and China, which is why China props them up-something that they are growing quite tired of doing if the rumblings are indeed correct.
Propaganda benefits someone or something. If it doesn't, it serves no purpose.
Furthermore, are you trying to say that The Famine which was documented by numerous aid groups, wasn't true? In that case, what leads the NK military to lower its physical requirements in a fitting time span for stunted growth patterns due to undernourishment? Just plain chance?
I mean, read some books about the reality of NK. Here's some good choices-
Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea
Nothing to Envy
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Escape from Camp 14
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
If you honestly believe that his many people are part of some propaganda campaign to make a country that already looks terrible look worse, that's pure /r/conspiracy thinking.