something that puzzles me about reactionaries speaking about north korea or any communist country, is the idea that they have a dictatorship so powerful that people aren’t able to fight against it, movies and spectacles accused as “staged” or “if he/she fails he/she will die with his/her family”. the typical idea of enemies “being weak and uberstrong at the same time”, like damn…if people in dprk were under a dictatorship so brutal as they say, you would hear more about uprisings and strikes more frequently than in USA, are you trying to tell me that the only “efficient dictatorships” are the communist ones? that capitalism isn’t able to keep people like pinochet or hitler more than a couple of decades and with constant revolts and a huge media industry? ok…
Why would someone revolt in a country where their needs are provided when the other option can be seen where it is not? The DPRK provides for its people and revolting would lead to destitution and ruin. The citizens are not morons. The know how things are. They value their freedom and safety so of course they wouldn’t revolt agaiant a government that provides that.