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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"North Koreans" are not a people. Northern Koreans do not live in caves, not since the US empire committed genocide on the Korean people decades ago. Housing rates in the DPRK are extremely high, and city design is made to be easily transitable by citizens.

The KPA's nuclear arsenal is not to be made light of. The KPA is the fourth largest military in the world, with an estimated 80 nuclear warheads. They also do not kill people for stealing posters, a traveler was arrested for trespassing on military grounds and defacing a plaque, and during his imprisonment he contracted botulism, fell into a coma, was returned to the west, and an autopsy was refused so they could claim the DPRK killed him.

The DPRK affirms their hard lines whenever the US and ROK stage military invasion practice, as a means of deterrence. The fact that you have no clue what actually goes on in the world does not mean everyone shares your ignorance.