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I genuinely feel like the DPRK could hasten reunification by trying to show folks in the South just how normal and well-adjusted folks in their society are. Like, hey, we work 8 hours a day and have enough to eat and a home, and we spend a lot of quality time with family and friends.
(Yes I know it’s illegal to access anything related to the DPRK in the south. And even when it’s not illegal, YouTube for example quickly shut down that one DPRK channel where it was just a little girl talking about her day).
The Boy Boy haircut video did a lot of heavy lifting for me.
Beware of the Boy Boy to Juche pipeline
I think a lot of NK media is just drowned out by the barrage of low-effort anti-communist propaganda. It has to do with the country's lack of digital infrastructure compared to South Korea. You just can't spend the same amount of resources like capitalist shitholes like Japan and South Korea on soft power if you're under heavy sanctions so they choose carefully choreographed news pieces instead.
If technology can only be rationed to people who live in cities or on waiting lists then you can't post harder than a society where everyone has a phone and has been conditioned by decades of dictatorship and corruption to accept capitalist rule without question and have been trained to glamorize capitalism in literally every facet of their lives. Even in their depression and horrible pain like this article.
The BBC can point at the gaping holes of South Korea and call it "Confucianism haha" while those similarly sized holes in North Korea become proof of the failure of communism.
"nonfalsifiable anti-communist orthodoxy"