For any who have never seen it somehow, check out the short documentary Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul for more information on how most defectors are treated. They are often coerced, bribed or deceived. SK withholds passport privileges and doesn't recognize DRPK passport, so they cannot leave the country legally and are trapped without documentation or money or any support.

Some sell out and become informants, spies, anti-DPRK propagandists. Those that don't must be careful to speak their mind at any time because any statement that is pro-DPRK will get you prosecuted under the National Security Act and placed in prison. Good luck ever getting a job after that, and you've got nowhere to go. Intel services stalk you and harass you, and people report you to the police for statements like "I admire Kim Il Sung"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V4Hnl7J9H4

notice how principled socialist nations don't have a "green" party screaming about nuclear power. Western leftists, take note.

wondering when this particular contradiction will boil over

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2024/09/06/about-fifty-french-mercenaries-were-killed-in-konstantinovka

according to russia, 50 frogs boiled

they should still arm ansarallah discretely through iran

they can use our information to do disinformation!

Palestinian lives are worth nothing to the colonial Israeli mind, so it’s 1/0. They could kill every single Palestinian to avenge a single jew and feel vindicated in their own minds

Also, maybe don’t have a rave in the desert a kilometer outside a massive concentration camp

150,000 dead Palestinians: I sleep

6 dead hostages: Real shit!?

If I were him I would pay another 5 million to get smuggled out of the country to somewhere without an extradition treaty

socialism isn't when "the government owns the means of production". By that definition every single nation on earth is somewhat socialist (lmao).

Socialism is when the government is a dictatorship of the proletariat and they proletariat democratically control the means of production.

UK could nationalize all of their industry tomorrow, wouldn't make them socialist since it would just be the rich who still own everything, just centralized under their bourgeois state.

the "correct" definition of socialism is when the government does stuff apparently