• tal@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      I don’t think that I’d call this “North Korea”. China isn’t even North Korea, and China’s a one party state that outright prohibits parties from existing that oppose the ruling party.

      There’s a spectrum of political repression, and North Korea is pretty far down it.

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        2 months ago

        I take your point, but I wouldn’t categorise NK as being pretty far down the road in terms of political repression.

        Try and oppose the Kim’s and see how long you continue breathing.

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          2 months ago

          Don’t they also arrest your close circle and put them in an internment camp? You know to make sure your ideas did not leak out.

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          2 months ago

          looks confused

          I wasn’t saying that North Korea is less politically-repressive than China.

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            2 months ago

            To be fair, you introduced China into the subject, not us.

            I agree, tho. Both are repressive, so is Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and a whole bunch of others.