just part of a massive DPRK propaganda kick nyt is on right now, my favourite piece so far is this hilariously racist shit about north korean fashion https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/fashion/decoding-dress-in-north-korea.html
Ufuk_Surekli posted:the clip "This is Human Rights" succinctly introduces the concept of human rights from a Juche perspective. it emphasises the DPRK's special focus on what liberal theorists would call "positive rights" (e.g., the right to comprehensive world-class healthcare, the right of access to universal, free, lifelong education, etc.) and contrasts these with the dire state of such rights under the NATO regimes. includes testimony of foreign observers and is quite a good counterpoint to anti-DPRK propaganda wrt rights
there is some horn tooting and a couple of shots of buildings, it barely says anything and it quotes five random people who could be anyone. i am sure DPRK is better than western media portrays it but this video is ridiculous. who do you think this is convincing?
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http://apjjf.org/-JJ-Suh/3382/article.html
article raising questions on the official story of the sinking of south korea's Cheonan.
Which is a convenient but bullshit way of dismissing the never acknowledged conclusion that he was not assassinated
If the US wanted to kill him however I can easily imagine that info getting loose and Nam buying antidote in preparation. They mightve wanted to do it just to villify the DPRK and provide fodder for the media to beat the war drums.
Or, he didn't have any antidote on him and that fact was invented to suggest he expected an attempted on his life by the DPRK
roseweird posted:well personally it suggests nothing to me. it's weird and i have no idea what's going on, but i'm probably alone in that.
it suggests some badass John le Carre novel shit, to me,
xipe posted:http://www.northkoreatech.org/the-north-korean-website-list/
followed one of these links to north-korea-books.com and theres some translated novels on there, im curious as to what they're like
lo posted:followed one of these links to north-korea-books.com and theres some translated novels on there, im curious as to what they're like
they're probably fictitious prose narratives of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism
How did their depiction in the western media change over the decades?
I'd guess the current state we're at (where the experts on our TVs tell us that Koreans will be shot out of a canon or fed to wild dogs for of their haircut doesn't match Kims) is the fruit of a concerted campaign since the 90s (fall of USSR, famine, and new leader)