The name has been almost permanently ruined. Whenever people hear of it, they always think of no food, 1984, worshipping the leader, getting your entire family arrested for not doing so, all that stuff. And if you say otherwise, they just call you a propagandist who is hiding the truth. And even if Korea’s government does anything like build a water park, people say that it is just to “fool the world into believing they are good”. Like they can’t even build an entire village without people saying that they are just building it to deceive people.
At least China is taken seriously by a lot of people.
>…North Korea has active worker participation in society at large yet it is portrayed as…
To the bourgeois, that’s exactly a >bleak dystopia and the worst place on Earth.
It’s a wonder why the working class don’t realise why they have been taught to hate it. I suppose it’s mainly because the ‘working class’ that had been taught to hate it is mostly labour aristocrats and PMC.