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North Korea sent him abroad to be a secret IT worker

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Re: North Korea sent him abroad to be a secret IT worker

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Post by dttze »

dh2022 wrote: post #54
deadbabe wrote: post #44

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You're just feeding into western propaganda. Yes North Korean people are poor and there's tons of inequality but they are still real people. They are not in a constant war being bombed and tortured endlessly. They tend to farms, chat with friends, make jokes, feel pain and joy, they do what they can. I know that sounds like literal hell to a tech obsessed population that has to filter everything through the lens of s…

The only bad things in the daily NK life you mentioned are poverty and inequality (more about that below [0]). You did not mention famine, physical oppression, lack of healthcare, censorship-all of which are well documented. I am afraid it is not me who is pushing some type of propaganda… [0] about inequality in communist countries- these countries had much less inequality than western countries. Almost everyone was…

So you have no proof, and are just repeating propaganda, with a bonus anti communist rant. NK isn’t Eastern Europe.

Re: North Korea sent him abroad to be a secret IT worker

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Post by thomassmith65 »

dttze wrote: post #60
phatfish wrote: post #55

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Gone on, tell us, which podcast should we be listening to?

One where they don’t say NK is a marvel villain or that KJU killed various people in the government only for them to be seen weeks later. If you are ignorant on something you are better off keeping quiet than regurgitating low IQ propaganda.

North Korea must be wonderful: nobody has an unkind word for the leader and hardly anyone leaves /s

Re: North Korea sent him abroad to be a secret IT worker

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Post by thomassmith65 »

deadbabe wrote: post #44
dh2022 wrote: post #39

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Oh my God, you are so naive. Normal stuff in NK is watching your kids wasting away because of lack of calories (average North Korean is 10 inches shorter than average South Korean-even though 70nyears ago they were the same people genetically). Is living with a radio in your home that does not stop singing praise to the regime - neighbors will report you if they think you turned off the radio. If they have free thoug…

You're just feeding into western propaganda. Yes North Korean people are poor and there's tons of inequality but they are still real people. They are not in a constant war being bombed and tortured endlessly. They tend to farms, chat with friends, make jokes, feel pain and joy, they do what they can. I know that sounds like literal hell to a tech obsessed population that has to filter everything through the lens of s…

  They are not in a constant war
North Korean soldiers have been fighting and dying in Ukraine this year to support Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_involvement_in_th...

Re: North Korea sent him abroad to be a secret IT worker

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Post by Yeul »

klik99 wrote: post #38
deadbabe wrote: post #12

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It’s bad but not as bad as we’re made to believe, people still have lives worth living. They live, they laugh, they love. They do fun normal stuff, they have free thoughts, they have family.

People will see kids laughing and playing in a war zone and think “it can’t be that bad, if it was that bad they’d be cowering in fear 24/7” - but people always find a way to live and find snippets of joy in even the worst situations

And 30 years later people get nostalgic for the simple days...

Re: North Korea sent him abroad to be a secret IT worker

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Post by alwa »

D-Coder wrote: post #45
tough wrote: post #17

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Its quite presumptuous to assume that 1. Every citizen will have ties or family to -think of- 2. The current regime (which is now on its third generation) will last 7 generations more. 3. You have any descendants at all

It's a threat . It doesn't have to be perfect. If the citizen does have a family or descendants, it will have a significant effective rate.

They can also select which citizens to send based on their ties. Much as a bank might size up collateral for a loan.

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Post by dh2022 »

dttze wrote: post #61
dh2022 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only bad things in the daily NK life you mentioned are poverty and inequality (more about that below [0]). You did not mention famine, physical oppression, lack of healthcare, censorship-all of which are well documented. I am afraid it is not me who is pushing some type of propaganda… [0] about inequality in communist countries- these countries had much less inequality than western countries. Almost everyone was…

So you have no proof, and are just repeating propaganda, with a bonus anti communist rant. NK isn’t Eastern Europe.

The facts are mentioned are well documented and available on Wikipedia. You can google them yourself. My “rant” was actually an explanation of how communist countries had low levels of inequality.

Speaking about proof-where is yours? Your extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence…

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Post by [deleted] »

thomassmith65 wrote: post #63
deadbabe wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're just feeding into western propaganda. Yes North Korean people are poor and there's tons of inequality but they are still real people. They are not in a constant war being bombed and tortured endlessly. They tend to farms, chat with friends, make jokes, feel pain and joy, they do what they can. I know that sounds like literal hell to a tech obsessed population that has to filter everything through the lens of s…

They are not in a constant war North Korean soldiers have been fighting and dying in Ukraine this year to support Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_involvement_in_th...

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Re: North Korea sent him abroad to be a secret IT worker

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Post by subscribed »

dttze wrote: post #61
dh2022 wrote: post #54

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The only bad things in the daily NK life you mentioned are poverty and inequality (more about that below [0]). You did not mention famine, physical oppression, lack of healthcare, censorship-all of which are well documented. I am afraid it is not me who is pushing some type of propaganda… [0] about inequality in communist countries- these countries had much less inequality than western countries. Almost everyone was…

So you have no proof, and are just repeating propaganda, with a bonus anti communist rant. NK isn’t Eastern Europe.

Every single person which was raised up in the USSR-occupied country, who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union and then in their independent countries, can repeat this story.

Mine's basically verbatim.

There are books about it, you know.

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