Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:03 pmNormally I won't talk about these kinds of things-- but why do you feel that people sympathizing with the Juche Ideology is an issue, at all? Really, I believe you're using this as an excuse to be not only judgemental, but advocate for something against said followers of said political ideology-- while covering it up with a benevolent attitude. Really, it shouldn't be something you talk about on a NS forum-- at all.
As for the question at hand, Juche is an ideology I am relatively neutral towards. You claim nationalism is bad-- which the term itself is overly generalized, and you seem to blatantly use the "the DPRK is hell" bull from the west despite the fact that the west was the country that isolated and starved the DPRK in the first place, not out of human rights but out of blatant meddling and regime change-- which the countries involved are famous for. It's a big brain moment that to me, the only countries listed as rouge nations are ones that refuse to accept the --american dominated-- ideals of globalization and the international banks. Furthermore, despite the fact that several defectors are honest-- that south Korea has paid a recorded amount of equivalent of 800,000 USD for defector stories, and some defectors like Yeonmi Park are blatant liars who are obviously using their fame to get a hold of it.
Rather than criticizing others for being Jucheist sympathizers-- which you so graciously do-- you seem to be covering for something else entirely.
I suggest you also research the stories that the world media put out, recalled, and gave a half-hearted apology for telling false infortmation.
Furthermore, if you wish to know why the regime is so hostile-- the American government claims to have killed off 20% of the population in the Korean war, actively tried to starve the DPRK twice-- once during the Korean War and once during the arduous march (despite the DPRK wanting to open its economy up in the first place by joining the IMF). That is why Kim Jong-Il strengthened Songun in the first place, and assisted nuclear development. The country is patriotic and its leaders were voted in-- admittedly partially because of the bloodline but merely out of "Kim Jong Il was the best example of Kim Il-Sung" and so on. The country desires economic self-sufficiency and trade with the world-- so long as its independence and identity isn't brought to knee.
Juche is a clearly flawed ideology, but we must remember that it's one of the last pieces of identity that broken and unfortunate country has. People defend it admittedly because it's the last bastion of independence in this modern and increasingly one-sided world-- even if there are the cringe-worthy "kim did nothing wrong" people. The DPRK is only isolated because the world made it so. The country is hostile because it did not forget their past (first the genocides of the Japanese rule that Kim Il-Sung fought against, and then the atrocities from both sides of the Korean war). The country pursues nukes because they do not want to cede what little they have of themselves.
As for the question at hand, Juche is an ideology I am relatively neutral towards. You claim nationalism is bad-- which the term itself is overly generalized, and you seem to blatantly use the "the DPRK is hell" bull from the west despite the fact that the west was the country that isolated and starved the DPRK in the first place, not out of human rights but out of blatant meddling and regime change-- which the countries involved are famous for. It's a big brain moment that to me, the only countries listed as rouge nations are ones that refuse to accept the --american dominated-- ideals of globalization and the international banks. Furthermore, despite the fact that several defectors are honest-- that south Korea has paid a recorded amount of equivalent of 800,000 USD for defector stories, and some defectors like Yeonmi Park are blatant liars who are obviously using their fame to get a hold of it.
Rather than criticizing others for being Jucheist sympathizers-- which you so graciously do-- you seem to be covering for something else entirely.
I suggest you also research the stories that the world media put out, recalled, and gave a half-hearted apology for telling false infortmation.
Furthermore, if you wish to know why the regime is so hostile-- the American government claims to have killed off 20% of the population in the Korean war, actively tried to starve the DPRK twice-- once during the Korean War and once during the arduous march (despite the DPRK wanting to open its economy up in the first place by joining the IMF). That is why Kim Jong-Il strengthened Songun in the first place, and assisted nuclear development. The country is patriotic and its leaders were voted in-- admittedly partially because of the bloodline but merely out of "Kim Jong Il was the best example of Kim Il-Sung" and so on. The country desires economic self-sufficiency and trade with the world-- so long as its independence and identity isn't brought to knee.
Juche is a clearly flawed ideology, but we must remember that it's one of the last pieces of identity that broken and unfortunate country has. People defend it admittedly because it's the last bastion of independence in this modern and increasingly one-sided world-- even if there are the cringe-worthy "kim did nothing wrong" people. The DPRK is only isolated because the world made it so. The country is hostile because it did not forget their past (first the genocides of the Japanese rule that Kim Il-Sung fought against, and then the atrocities from both sides of the Korean war). The country pursues nukes because they do not want to cede what little they have of themselves.
