I will be goign by the name song here … I will not answer questions that will leak my personal information … I will not answer questions about work … I will not answer questions that can link to my real identitiy !!
What kind of music do you listen to? Can you recommend me any artists or songs you like? Thank you!
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“Enslaved”? You know nothing about the guy, idiot.
Another white saviorist who think the west is bringing freedom to iraq or something. Thanks for your commitment to human right worldwide, stupid.
I do not not what this means !!
He meant users from lemmy.ml. Many of its users are support dictatorship.
Hey, some of us were unaware of the .ml reputation and are too lazy to change it.
Are you me? You don’t have to answer that…
Do you know if there are significant differences between the Korean language of North Korea, and the Korean language of South Korea?
Or are they still very similar?
I only really know one word in Korean… I would sound it out as ’ gam zeh hah mee da '.
I asked some local, older aged, shop owners of South Korean descent how to say ‘thank you’ in Korean so I could thank them with more respect when I shop at their stores… I may be pronouncing or spelling my pronunciation wrong.
Apoarently it is 감사합니다 in Korean… but that is likely South Korean, and it seems that South Korean and North Korean use different words, or pronounciations, for at least some terms…
It would be interesting to learn if there are more differences between the two forms of Korean. :D
It’s only been 80 years since country was artificially divided, and 70 years since US prevented democratic unification. I would be interested if OP/NK have access to SK culture/media. If they have the same words for computer and fax and email for example.
Yes !! Accent is different … Formal is the same almost . If I hear I know someone is from NK or SK but sometimes not when wrote .
Do you have a desire to travel or live outside of North Korea? If you did, is that something you believe you would ever be able to pursue? If not, how does it feel to know your government officials are restricting you in that way?
I have been for other countries … I enjoyed !! but I love NK . I want to stay .
NK is at war … It is not allowed to leave when you want . Its safety .
Thanks for your response!
Proof?
Yea, I want him to make a selfie with kim jong-un as a Proof.
plot twist, he’s Kim Jong-Un
ha ha I am
ha ha
I cant think of a way to do that would not comprimise me … Im sorry but you dont have to trust me . I am not here to promote political agenda !! I want to answer questions people can have about NK .
How do you start your day? Do you eat breakfast?
I have to wake up and brush and then I eat !! After I get ready … I dont rush .
I cant think of a way to do that would not comprimise me … Im sorry but you dont have to trust me . I am not here to promote political agenda !! I want to answer questions people can have about NK .
You speak the truth when you say NK is closed off but most people are happy about that . I enjoy living here .
Life is good !! We live well . We have good jobs and family .
OP also has internet access, so probably has a fairly well-off bubble. Assuming, again, this is legit. It’s well done if it’s not, though.
There is a NK internet, that China helped to build. Access and use of internet is increasing a lot in NK.
More like intranet. Same deal as Cuba.
I have not information about people in SK … There is poor people in NK . That is true . Many people in countryside who works in the field have little to eat is also true . People in cities have good lives and in the countryside not much !! I am not rich … I am not elite but I live in a city and I have good life .
Stupid fat American gets his info from Seth Rogen movie. Katy Perry very popular there though.
no don’t worry, you can’t criticize in the west.
Do the prisoners in the torture camps enjoy the fact that they got there because one of their relatives once accidentally spat in the general direction of an official they didn’t see?
how is life in your close community?
“Can’t complain”
Technically, not a lie.
what do people do for fun when they have days off, on holiday,… ? how free are you to choose a partner and form a family in your culture? (i mean, are marriages arranged in some way, or do the relatioships form naturally?, can your partner be of the same sex, can you have multiple partners,…?)
I like to be with my family and go out !! we have places like beach and parks and waterparks and we have fun .
In NK a long time ago families married daufhters to men they didnt know but it was not forced … it was arranged . my mother married my father but she not know him until the day they married !! I have wife but I met her my parents dont choose her for me . Our relationship formed naturaly !! I dont know NK people who had a partner like man man or a lot of wives !!
Cool to know, thanks for sharing!
Yes from very young they teach how the Kim family helped the country exist … I dont say there is adoration but it is very respectful .
Is it respect or fear? To me those are different.
We do not fear the leaders … We respect them . It is not forced to respect … but do not disrespect . It is societal expectation .
Interesting. It always amazes me that all across the world politicians lie, victimize, and manipulate their people, and we can all see it in other countries. Yet in every country, so many people think “but not our leaders, they are different, they are better!” It’s quite sad.
We should never respect those who enforce that respect through violence.
I do not suffer violence . It is like your mom and dad . Your parents are good because they helped you grow . You dont want people to disrespect your mom because she has grown you . Same with the leaders and NK people . I respect the leaders … I respect the government … But it has many flaws that has to change very soon for the good of NK people .
Sure, and that’s why this question is unlikely to produce a useful answer.
Are you happy in general?
I am happy … I see lot of people on the internet saying lies … We enjoy simple lives . NK people are not sad all the time . I have work and family close .
Thank you.
No … I have acess to Internet and I see lot of things from the world here in lemmy and other sites … NK people trust the goverment a lot … The news is got from television radio and websites in NK intranet …
Can you take a picture of something that would show you’re in NK that has no duplicate on the internet?
I cant think of a way to do that would not comprimise me … Im sorry but you dont have to trust me . I am not here to promote political agenda !! I want to answer questions people can have about NK .
could you just upload a photo of the cover of a history book?
I don’t think we have many North Korean history books outside of your country so that would give credibility.I can not think how … I have to conect my personal phone to computer . It is not safe .
that’s a good point. Do your computers not have cameras?
No … I can not die for this like people say abuot NK . I can get trouble because I am using the conection for something I am not allowed to … but I wont die but I can get in a lot trouble .
That is not the truth too … No torture . Only the sanctions will apply !!
What’s your favourite dinosaur?
T rex
Do most people buy into the propaganda or is it just pretending to out of fear?
I doubt OP is actually North Korean, but if you want a real answer from the perspective of people from authoritarian governments:
I’m Chinese-American, and I was the second child born to my parents. My parent’s violated the One Child Policy. They have to pay a huge fine to get my legal documents (or else I’d legally not exist, like imagine being treated as an illegal immigrant in your own country), then my parents brought me and my older brother to the US (like way before 2025, for clarification) on an immigration visa.
So yea, that whole 计划生育 (Planned Parenthood) propaganda forced by the government as some sort of holy bible, my parents just tossed this bible in the trash, that shows just how much loyalty people really have towards the government.
But they did tell me to stop criticizing the government, so there’s that.
Even in the US (again, before 2025, before this fucked-up shitshow of a US administration), my parents, especially my grandmother (who also lived with us, in the US), told me to STFU about the government, both CCP and the US government. Like, apparantly, the fear of government sentinment stayed with them.
I mean, I guess it makes sense. Even though I got citizenship through my mom (Google: Derivative Citizenship in the US), my dad is a PRC citizen, and my grandmother is also a PRC citizen. I guess that’s why… two of the most powerful countries on Earth, they don’t want trouble to follow because I said sometime that anger the elites. (China has secret police stations in the US, AFIAK)
They do say stuff like recalling the time before China opened up, and acknowledging it was kinda fucked up.
But then the Taiwan stuff show up in their Wechat feed, and if I start criticizing, they shut me down quickly. I’m like: “So do you agree with them? Who not just abort me like they (the CCP) wanted you to?”
Sometimes she’d shut up, other times she actually told me she regreted giving birth to me. Yea, thanks mom, mother of the year amirite? (Seriously, who says shit like this to their children?)
Idk what’s with their flip flop stance.
I said I don’t like the CCP because they wanted to “terminate” me, but then my mom said: “but you are alive, right?”, completely dismissing the fact that I almost didn’t exist because of CCP.
I’m having an existential crisis because I don’t fucking understand my existence at all. In another timeline, I probably don’t exist.
Sorry I kinda went on a rant a bit, I’m not high I swear.
TLDR: They kinda eat up half of the propaganda, but they wanted another child probably to secure their retirement (there is not guaranteed social security at that tine), so they ignored the One Child Policy. Not very that brainwashed IMO. But not too open minded either.
As for my older brother who spend longer time in China than I did, he became anti-CCP, but learning about Tiananmen probably shocked him so much, he became this weird right-wing libertarian type of person. Racist AF, and skeptical of government, anti-vax, all that shit.
So yea, authoritarianism fuck up your mind, a lot.
Anyways, I’m gonna look outside, into another autocratizing regime (USA).
P.S, Imagine: You’re drowning in the ocean and rescued by a ship, but that ship is the Titanic (that would be going fron PRC to USA in this analogy), and the crew did a mutiny (2016 and 2024 elections) and are now sterring into icebergs (the ongoing fascism in the US). That’s me right now. I’m on the Titanic. And there are no lifeboats, no ships nearby to save me. I don’t have depression, I have stuck-on-the-Titanic-syndrome.
I’m here if you need to talk.
So like living in the US as a non-white
