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I knew a South Korean prof who chose to live in North Korea (as a philanthropic act) and teach at their top university (His research was in Embedded Electronics). Conversations with him completely changed my mind on North Korea, because prior to that my only context was through American/Canadian mainstream media (read: propaganda). I still think its a dictatorial regime that needs to be abolished and the North Korean people deserve democracy, but the day to day life of an average North Korean residing in a large city is not very different than any of us here.

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This.

If anyone thinks North America isn't actively involved in propaganda as well, they are delusional.

The amount of "anti-china" comments i come across on the internet is shocking, and I can tell the posters have never left the US, let alone been to the country of their targeted "hate". Where do these strong views come from if they haven't been there, and probably have minimal contact with people who have?

Probably comes from the fact that you can't meet North Koreans because the ones who try to leave get shot.

You can meet North Koreans. US media generally doesn't have any interest in meeting them because they don't always answer questions about North Korea in the required way. US media prefers its North Koreans either silent or pitched to them by the wholly funded thinktanks of defense contractors.

One should separate anti-China with anti-CCP. The majority of comments are not the former, but the latter, and for good reason, as the CCP itself works in opposition to the Chinese people much of the time.

"but the day to day life of an average North Korean residing in a large city is not very different than any of us here."

Sure thing, I had to sneak out into the woods as well, to set my black pirated satellite internet connection up.

"Internet access is not generally available in North Korea. Only some high-level officials are allowed to access the global internet.[47] In most universities, a small number of strictly monitored computers are provided.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_North_Korea#Inte..."

When people say Hacker News doesn't have an intense bias I'll just link this comment.

The comment where a single person said that they heard that the elites of North Korea have fairly normal daily lives?

Are you saying that HN is biased because they haven't deleted the comment and tried to have the poster arrested for supporting terrorism?

I can link to your comment too where you imply that the bad news about North Korea is just defense contractor propaganda. Thanks!

Imagine being a North Korea simp like this.

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