But what the US did/does isn’t an unrelated wrong to the question of what’s wrong with NK. Why’s it a poor backwater country? Maybe it’s because it was devastated by a war and then blockaded from the rest of the world so it didn’t have access to trade. Why do they have such a paranoid defensive stance when it comes to dealing with the world or potential dissenters in the country? Maybe it’s because there is a super power actively out to destroy them and they’ve seen what that super power has done or tried to do to a lot of other countries with leftist movements. Why is the US making them an enemy? The claim that it’s because it’s a dictatorship doesn’t really ring true when you know the US has backed brutal dictatorships both in the Korean War and elsewhere in the world because they better aligned with their geopolitical interests than a communist state would.
I don’t know if it’s some perfect place either. I just don’t think it’s right to form your opinion based on info that’s being filtered through the propaganda of the country that’s actively opposed to the country. So much of what we’re told about NK seems too absurd to believe unless you’ve already bought into the narrative that they’re a cartoon villain country. So I can’t specifically say I support the particulars of the NK gov because it’s hard to know what’s true about it. But I feel confident history justifies my opposition to US attempts to interfere in people’s rights to self determination.