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Inside a phone smuggled out of North Korea
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"they smuggle south korean shows over the border to show people how rich south korea is and how much freedom people have here"
lmao
oh please please please tell me this is a bit.
Oh fuck it is not in fact a bit.
Literacy is a motherfucker huh
yeah right????
That was surreal. Like unintentional satire. Along with the hilarious squid game clip south Korea is cooked as well. Their population decline is indicative of a country on its deathbed and all because they squeeze their population so hard to keep their billionaires billionairing
South Korea won’t exist in 30 years max. Its like beyond screwed and the west is coping hard that NK proved to be the superior system for korean peoples, despite being intentionally barred from basic global trade since the 90s.
Yeah basically it shows the end results of capitalism. It's clearly a death cult. Japan is another example of what the end stage of real capitalism is. As in the real capitalism working properly according to all capitalist principles that economists espouse, the capitalism people fail to recognize, especially the people who defend capitalism by saying it's failures are actually due to the system not being real capitalism. Because even the correct implementation of capitalism even by their own standards is total destruction of a society.
Aren't the only obviously rich people in that show (the VIPs) NOT Korean?