>>1899772>Why is the DPRK the only country westerners will believe literally anything about?The same way westerners will believe
anything negative about other socialist experiments/ states/ communes etc, propaganda, manufactured consent, and of course a general lack of nuance in handling difficult topics surrounding what's actually true about the DPRK. What we also need to take into consideration is that due to Korea's isolationist policies, however understandable it may be, they don't have the global reach and/or access to wider social media that a lot of other western countries do- combine that with a language barrier and a constant blockade kept against them, they've little to any chance of accessing a wider internationalist platform in which they can hold genuine sway. The fact that the DPRK keeps such a closed hand and has policies that usually keep them isolated from the rest of the "international community" means that they can't necessarily "refute" any of the propaganda that's thrown their way. And rather than take time to actually understand why the DPRK is the way that it is- Western media just see military parades, grey skies and intense nationalism.
In short: the propaganda against the DPRK is pure aesthetics.
Is this to suggest that the DPRK isn't committing genuine crimes against its people? It's hard to say as there is hardly any counter evidence in forms of records, documentation, statements from officials that challenge these claims, but simultaneously- how is one supposed to trust the western media when they say "uh do you know the people of the DPRK believes in unicorns and that the Kims don't shit, whatsoever?"
It's in the interest of the west to spread disinformation and overexaggerate, but at the same time how does one actually refute said reports of the united nations without any actual counter evidence out side of shrill screams of "propaganda"!
In other words: with an overall lack of counter evidence or counter argument in the proof of documents, receipts, records, announcements etc- westerners will fall hook line and sinker for anti-DPRK propaganda.
They're viewed as an odd little entity with an odd little man running an odd little country, and any questioning of such an idea leads to the same responses- "what you don't believe in freedom and democracy? Are you insane for showing sympathy to these people?"
>If the NY Times reported Kim Jong-Un was a shape-shifting alien people would believe it. Why?A sick part of me wants to believe. That combined with Juche Necromancy would probs set off a new golden age of shitposting on leftypol. Im all for Posadist shapeshifters spreading the wisdom of Juche Necromancy.
>Also, can we get a thread on the most outrageous things said about this defiant nation?https://www.escapistmagazine.com/north-korean-scientists-confirm-that-unicorns-are-real/