Thread:Yellow-spider-kitty/@comment-35927883-20190416120800/@comment-4070297-20190416222335

The real world actually read up on the DPRK and not the one painted by the anti-DPRK clickbait youtubers you probably get your information from.

Reframing North Korean Human Rights by Christine Hong

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/14672715.2013.851154

Hazel Smith - Crimes Against Humanity? Unpacking the North Korean Human Rights Debate

http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2014.863581?fbclid=IwAR2G0PfgB71uMMUACaeJg6zVOPJS5U0LRP_elT-oiKqrWKS3SvSrTfNvNQU https://www.academia.edu/6296645/Crimes_against_humanity_Unpacking_the_North_Korean_Human_Rights_Debate

Nutrition and Health in North Korea: What’s New, What’s Changed and Why It Matters (excellent paper by Hazel Smith)

https://www.academia.edu/25554321/Nutrition_and_Health_in_North_Korea_Whats_New_Whats_Changed_and_Why_It_Matters

North Korea as the Wicked Witch of the East: Social Science as Fairytale (paper by Hazel Smith)

https://www.academia.edu/6130295/North_Korea_as_the_Wicked_Witch_of_the_East_Social_Science_as_Fairy_Tale

Most of the people leave the country for economic reasons because of the amount of sanctions on the country most of them of to earn money aboard. That is something that the US is responsible for not the DPRK government.

Also, about defectors see this documentary that shows much of the anti-DPRK narrative and the other side of the story such as how the south Korean ‘government’ has kidnapped people from the DPRK and how defectors are treated by the south Koreans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktE_3PrJZO0

Also, these

North Korea defector returns home calling South ‘capitalist hell’

https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-defector-returns-home-calling-south-capitalist-hell/a-39745918

North Korean waitress “defectors”: kidnapped by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/world/asia/north-korea-waitresses-defections.html

Forever strangers: the North Korean defectors who want to go back

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/26/forever-strangers-the-north-korean-defectors-who-want-to-go-back

After fleeing North Korea, some defectors want to go back to life under Kim Jong Un

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-15/north-korean-defectors-returning-to-the-hermit-kingdom/9254654

North Korea: Defectors and their skeptics

https://thediplomat.com/2014/10/north-korea-defectors-and-their-skeptics/

Why do North Korean defector testimonies so often fall apart?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-korean-defector-testimonies-so-often-fall-apart