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True but, despite how soulless it is, I'd still rather live in the occupied zone. It's financially privileged by the West though, so that makes sense. 🤷
You'd really choose to live under a foreign occupation? I'm not sure I would if I could choose.
What's with all the Korea shit recently?
I live in South Korea. It's convenient, safe, and modern. I might be biased because I live in Gangnam, but I feel like people here have more spending power on average than people in the US.
The societal pressure is a fucking nightmare, but that's a uniquely Korean thing. Nothing to do with the US.
Calling the South under foreign occupation is utter nonsense. Obviously, it's hyperbole and propagandist, but it also acts like Korea doesn't have its own culture or resist American influence. Quit trying to be edgy and use your brain.
If you want to talk about occupation, read up on the Japanese occupation of Korea. That was foreign occupation.
To give you a real answer and not a canned response by a North Korean propagandist lol, the uptick in Korea-posting is probably due to the fact that Trump and the South Korean president met either yesterday or the day before, and the meeting (afaik) went well. I’m no fan of Trump, but I can also recognize that SK is a long-standing US ally, so I’m glad things went well. Obviously, NK is pissed that it went well so they’re sending out propaganda for dipshit “leftist” westerners to parrot brainlessly while also likely having their own people comment on places like this.
International politics is weird nowadays and everything revolves around social unity/division through internet platforms.
Let me get this clear, you think the DPRK is sending out propaganda on Lemmy.ml? Because of a meeting netween Trump and Lee Jae-Myeong?
What counts as "doing work" for the DPRK? Further, the ableism and ageism in the rest of that paragraph is disgusting, even ignoring the generic anti-communism.
As for posting about Korea, it's not a new thing. There are many communists, anarchists, and otherwise anti-imperialists that want the US kicked out of the peninsula. I have met several Koreans IRL that want the US out so that reunification can happen, this is the standard demand from reunification activists. Check out the orgs that attended the People's Summit for Korea in July of this year, with many Statesian and Korean orgs attending.
So your response is to double down on the ableism? Incredible.
And yes, I use DPRK and ROK, because Korea is one nation with 2 governments. I refuse to legitimize the division into 2 countries, as that erases the shared history and collective struggle, as well as the mutual desire for reunification.
The bit on the "western world" building the internet is just chauvanism, especially considering it's countries like the PRC that actually build everything the west consumes.
No idea what the previous comments were, but definitely want to comment on some things here.
Most younger Koreans don't see the peninsula as one nation. They feel that the North and South have diverged enough that they should just make peace and do their own things. The "mutual desire for unification" is not ubiquitous, and "unification" is better described as "conquest."
And acknowledging the current state doesn't invalidate history. We can acknowledge that the present is different from the past. We can acknowledge that there is a shared history and various collective struggles but that different people decided to go different ways.
That doesn't erase the colonization of the ROK by the US, and just because younger generations don't feel as attached to a shared identity doesn't mean that said identity does not exist.
Reactionary shit in anti-communism? Classic.
Yeah, I realized that when I saw that news later. Not sure about the DPRK explicitly sending out propaganda, but it makes sense the it would get pro-DPRK folks active