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Because North Korea and Kim Jong Un are trending right now, here's a thread about the DPRK; an amazing country that you know absolutely nothing about yet are still taught to absolutely loathe it to the point of supporting its overthrow and continued US intervention.
The US war on Korea absolutely devastated the country, killing about 20% of the population. Their capital was demolished into the ground. However after the war, People's Korea went upon a path of reconstruction to rebuild what the US destroyed.
The country's founder Kim Il Sung and the Korean Worker's Party led the charge in mobilizing the masses into rebuilding what was lost, with Chinese, Soviet, and East German assistance. In the 1960's, the DPRK was called the economic miracle of east Asia.
https://apjjf.org/-Charles-K.-Armstrong/3460/article.html
https://apjjf.org/-Charles-K.-Armstrong/3460/article.html
Here's another great article about what the DPRK has been through, between the war, the reconstruction, teh fall of the USSR, the sanctions, and threats of annihilation from the US. https://www.theorientaldespot.com/article/understandingnorthkorea
Here's this Empire Files episode about the US's frantic genocidal urge to destroy the DPRK, as well as does a good job on disproving some of the most basic lies we're told about the country.
Western outlets are hellbent on making the DPRK out to be this militaristic regime, but you would be surprised to know that on multiple ocassions Kim Jong Un has expressed the need for peace between the US and the DPRK, and the need for denuclearization. https://www.nknews.org/2016/01/n-korea-reiterates-need-for-peace-treaty-with-u-s/
If the DPRK wants peace, why does it hold onto their nukes and show off their military capabilities? Because they know that nuclear deterrence works, and without it, the US would've held a second invasion of the DPRK, continuing where they left off. https://liberationschool.org/06-10-20-korea-crisis-from-1994-until-to-html/
That until the US releases the economic sanctions, retreats their occupation of troops from the Korean peninsula, and establishes a peace treaty with the country, the DPRK will never relax their military development. https://worldbeyondwar.org/%ef%bb%bf-whats-really-behind-north-koreas-nuclear-provocations/
Why is the US interested in the DPRK? For starters, the DPRK is sitting on top of trillions of dollars worth of minerals. It also serves as a geostrategic location, being under Russia and next to China. http://www.mining.com/largest-known-rare-earth-deposit-discovered-in-north-korea-86139/
Historically, and to this day, the DPRK has been a friend to liberation movements around the globe, lending either economic or military support. This article gets into the DPRK's historical relations with Africa. https://journal-neo.org/2016/03/18/north-korea-punished-for-helping-to-liberate-africa/
Here's an additional article how the Black Panther Party saw the DPRK as an inspiration to learn from with regards to the struggle for revolution and liberation from oppressors. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/black-panthers-north-korea-us-imperialism
Now, onto anti-DPRK propaganda. For starters, here's an eye witness report of on his experiences in visiting the country, and how it matches up against reality.
Here's this amazing video by the Grayzone Project which talks about the NED, the propaganda wing of the US which sends millions to right wing media outlets spreading misinformation about the US's enemies.
Name anything you've heard about the DPRK, literally anything. this article will show you that you are wrong and that you are being taught to hate the DPRK when you know absolutely nothing about it. https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201803021062166494-north-korea-loretta-napoleoni/
Here are some of the more wild lines of propaganda against the DPRK that have been exposed as lies, such as people dying but coming back to life a week later, mandated haircuts, and landing on the sun. https://anti-imperialism.org/2014/08/14/western-dprk-propaganda-the-worst-occasionally-hilarious-and-often-racist-lies/
Here's this great video by Suzy Kim, professor of Korean History at Rutgers University telling you what you know about the DPRK is racist nonsense.
Here's this great and emotional documentary about life in the DPRK, including interviews with many Korean citizens from across the country, called My Brothers and Sisters in the North.
Here's another amazing video which talks about the DPRK defectors that live in Seoul, but wish to return back. they're not brainwashed, they realize that capitalism impoverishes and isolates.
Here's an article which talks about this same phenomenon of DPRK defectors wanting to return home after being exposed to life in South Korea. https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-defector-returns-home-calling-south-capitalist-hell/a-39745918
Guardian article about defectors that wish to return home. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/26/forever-strangers-the-north-korean-defectors-who-want-to-go-back
I can add more, such as the lies about starvation, how democracy works in the DPRK, or how its economy functions and how they're able to survive so long, but i'll leave you this reading guide.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1we5OEdteZFfAh11v0s_RVh3LWAkVICGrFnvksVynGxw/edit#
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1we5OEdteZFfAh11v0s_RVh3LWAkVICGrFnvksVynGxw/edit#
Here's one more stash of resources that none of you are going to read through https://twitter.com/NatalieRevolts/status/1254213661423534093?s=19
