• bighi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes, very few were Koreans going to China when he recorded the video. I just meant to show that they CAN go to China.

    Korea is not a free country

    No country is 100% free. They’re at war. Brazil is not. Not only that, but they’ve been infiltrated by CIA agents posing as tourists multiple times. So now they banned pictures of their military.

    But if you watch other videos from that playlist, you’ll see they did record military a few times.

    There’s many videos, interviews, and books for you to read

    I did. A lot. Like, A LOT.

    Unfortunately, some of the weirdest stories come from CIA-created propaganda.

    But NK did have a very bad period, which is when most refugees left North Korea. They were invaded and had their infrastructure destroyed so bad that they had to go back to using animal traction instead of motorized vehicles.

    That lack of infrastructure, together with the US preventing them from buying things from most other countries, meant lots of people were hungry and scared. They left Korea thinking that it was the worst place in the world. And for a few years, it probably was.

    Do you remember when a couple weeks of truck drivers on strike creating a blockade sent Brazil into chaos? Now imagine a blockade that lasts for decades. Now imagine that when someone destroyed your country so hard that you don’t even have reliable roads or factories.

    I would leave the country for much less.

    But they reverted that with a lot of hard work. North Korea today is not the same NK that these immigrants left behind a few decades ago. I’m not saying its perfect, I’m saying it’s not the hell that the US tries to make it look like. And it would probably be a very very good country to live in, if they could buy food and technology from outside.

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      1 year ago

      No offense but it’s like the entire world is telling you something and you’re putting your fingers in your ears and shouting lalalalala.

      • bighi@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        The US is not the entire world.

        There are many books and documentaries with a less biased view of North Korea.

        But the US is by far the biggest propaganda machine the world has ever seen. And when you hear something so many times without having access to different viewpoints, you might think it’s true and that “the entire world” agrees with it.

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          Cara me fala o que você está fumando porque eu não quero nem experimentar.

          At the same time you claim the US to be this amazing propaganda machine that the world has ever seen, it is at the same time too weak to extinguish a few measley books and documentaries that are apparently not part of their propaganda.

          • bighi@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Yes. Because being able to publish propaganda is very different from being able to censor information that is published in another country.

            The US creates an overflowing amount of propaganda and they can push that to other countries. But they can’t come in here and take books away from libraries and bookstores. That’s not how things work.

            Their strategy is to drown the truth. And they’re really good at it.

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            Tell me you don’t understand propaganda without telling me you don’t understand propaganda. Maybe read Edward Bernays book Propaganda, or Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent, or Parenti’s Inventing Reality. The propaganda model has been extensively analyzed and there is no doubt in anyone who has done the research that the U.S. and its media apparatuses are the single largest producer of propaganda in the entire world.