Asklemmy @lemmy.ml lntl @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

What do you like most about North Korea?

I'll start! I like that DPRK has low per capita carbon emissions for an industrialized nation.

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Nothing, and I feel like these discussions, even if made ironically, come off as incredibly tone-deaf given the reality of the people unfortunate enough to be stuck living in N.K.
At 40 years old, they have one of the world's youngest leaders. Way to represent Millenials, Kim!
- True, though they only put esteem in him because they consider him an avatar of his grandfather.
  
  Necrocracy. I think they're the only country that is officially still ruled by a dead leader.
Where to begin! The famines? The oppression? The lack of liberties? The persecution of queer people, or, indeed, any thought viewed as slightly aberrant? The megalomaniacal madman who keeps his people in chains while he lives the life of the ultra-rich? The gasping, desperate poverty of his subjects? Their inability to leave the country? The militarism? The backwardness?

Oh, wait, what we like?

Uh...
I have a morbid curiosity for their state propaganda (as with other state propaganda). They're just very persistent with it. Not sure if that counts as something from NK that's good, but it's at least one thing that I'm fascinated by.
Their flag is extra wide
- So is Kim's butt that he has to have chair checkers to make sure the chair will take his weight.
  
  Safety is no accident!
- I didn't know that! I wonder why they made that design decision.
Sqirrel and Hedgehog
Kim's haircut is pretty sweet
ha haaa
- Hello, Hal.
- I'm not going to falll for your rickroll, sorry charlie
  
  I for one would never do that though.
That mass games thing they do where each person is a pixel is quite something. Video.
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Um, how about annyeonghaseNO.

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