All I know about north korea is that a student from my university went there, was arrested for stealing a poster, and was never seen alive again. But I suppose that's a lie, the people who went with him must have lied to the media, or maybe every media agency that covered it lied. Surely that's more believable

Refugees from r/pyongyang finding their way to Lemmy

This is an embarrassing level of stupid. NK government literally killed a tourist for trying to take a poster. If NK citizens say anything except that everything there is rainbows and unicorns, they'll be killed or sent to work camps. Does "western" AKA democratic, non-despotic media make a big deal out of everything bad that NK does? Yeah, they do. Does NK actually do all of those things? Oh shit, yeah to that one, too.