REDSTATE | Published November 16, 2024
When satellites pass over the Korean peninsula at night, South Korea is lit up. Modernity. North Korea is not. It is dark, like the Dark Ages would be seen from space. North Korea is called the Hermit Kingdom because it is an isolationist nation. Its people have little to no contact with the outside world. The media they consume is pure propaganda – ranging from the deranged and false to absurd and laughable. North Koreans subsist on a low-calorie diet, with a majority of the population living on the edge of starvation. Since the armistice in 1953, multiple generations have been starved, with a majority of North Koreans suffering from stunted growth.
The communist government has fed lies to several successive generations where an overwhelming percentage of its population has no other baseline than bare subsistence, both intellectually and physically. And constant propaganda.
The “Democratic Peoples Republic” has created a fiction that its people simply accept.
When South Korea was awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics, North Korea demanded to be a “partner.” North Korea built a “Ski Resort” — a winter Potemkin Village. An apologist said of the “Resort:
“With projects like Masikryong, Kim Jong Un wants to make it clear that he cares not just about the country surviving and fighting the Americans, but also about people having fun,” said Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and co-editor of the North Korean Economy Watch blog, using the Korean name of the resort.
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IRISH STAR | Published November 16, 2024
North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia in Ukraine may never see home again and instead face a grim fate, experts have warned. Allegedly around 10,000 North Korea’s servicemen are currently involved in the conflict as per US intelligence reports and their numbers could rise if this initial engagement is deemed successful by Kim Jong Un.
However, dreams of a hero’s welcome could be shattered for these soldiers upon their return. Russia expert and author Keir Giles provided insight to Mirror.com on their likely future: “There’s a good reason why Russia has kept North Korean troops on its territory for now.
“They’ve had enough trouble with their own Russian soldiers going into Ukraine and realizing how much better life is just living it outside Russia. The individuals in North Korea are unlikely ever to be allowed to return home now they have experienced what life is like outside North Korea, even if it is in regions of Russia itself.
“It would be dangerous for the North Korean regime to allow them back to infect others with knowledge of what they have seen. We might instead see a return to the kind of purges that were carried out against the Red Army in 1945 when they returned from Europe. Large parts were encircled and sent to the gulags.”
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