North Korea survived a genocidal bombing campaign by the same imperialists that back the Zionist entity doing the current salient genocide. 20% of the population killed, primarily civilians. Every population center bombed to dust and wreckage. All to keep a homegrown organized left from achieving national liberation after Japanese occupation. They economically and socially outperformed the military dictatorship that was occupied South Korea. Then, following the fall of the USSR, nearly all of their trade was cut off (US-backed sanctions have killed at least 20 million in the last few decades per a recent Lancet study). They faced an externally-imposed fuel crisis that killed industrialized agriculture, inducing famine conditions. Maximum pressure on the entire population.

They focused on self-reliance, a doctrine known as Juche, due tot hese very real and material circumstances, and ignorant Westerners have been eating up absurd lies about how the country functions for decades, revealing that they are actually far more propagandized than your typical North Korean.

Please try to keep orientalist anticommunism out of your advocacy for Palestine.