It was really annoying back when I was a rightist but it’s even more frustrating now that I am a Marxist-Leninist that so-called “leftists” denounce pretty much every single successful socialist experience in history.

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    Makes sense. Jeez it’s insane just how exaggerated and pervasive western propaganda is…like, I’ve done a good amount of research to try and undo my perceptions about the DPRK, but even still I have the thought that “surely there must be something that’s accurate in the media that’s just wildly exaggerated”. But I guess US media does just make up whatever the fuck they want.

    Did you visit more rural towns? What were they like? I was checking the sattelite images out on Google earth and it looks like they’re really tiny and spread out. Also did you go to the Waterpark? Lol

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      I did vist a couple smaller towns. They seemed very similar to rural towns in my country (Japan) at first glance. People were friendly. All of the ones I went to had a community center that people seemed to use pretty often after work; they seemed to offer classes and further education type programs. When I talk about the DPRK having way better work-life balance than the south, that is one of the big things that jumped out to me. They were probably about what you would expect from rural farming communities for the most part.

      If you are talking about Munsu, it opened after my last visit, so I did not have the chance to go. Looks fun though.