• ameancow@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      I wonder why so many people think there is something fundamentally different about North Korea and the people there. Sure the media control is a bit tighter, but the same thing is happening there as here, always has been in fact. Media is controlled by the state who are controlled by the elite/wealthy. Because of this, meda lies, they just tune their lies to whoever is watching.

      You don’t NEED to wall off your nation to make people spout lies for you, to make newscasters and printed headlines tell the population that their leader doesn’t poop and that he’s 700 years old and shoots money beams from his navel. The people who want to hear it will repeat it with glee and don’t want to fact check it, and the ones who don’t believe it know enough to be quiet and keep their head down so they can get through the day. The same things are happening here and have been happening here.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        52 minutes ago

        i think the whole hermit kingdom we will kill you and your entire family, plus sentence you to forty years for forced labor is going to be a more impactful difference between north korea, and literally anywhere else in the world.

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        1 hour ago

        There are a couple fundamental differences between the US and North Korea - in NK, you can’t travel without governmental approval and also you get shot if you try to leave.

        In the US, you can walk to a different state if you so desire (or drive or fly, but those require gov’t ID) and the only thing you need to have if you want to leave the country is paperwork that the other country accepts.

        I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more fundamental differences between the two countries, but those are two big ones that I thought of off the top of my head.