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      DPRK has not attacked or invaded other countries. This can’t even be charitably considered a comparison because the U.S Empire has killed millions and induced suffering for centuries now.

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          The DPRK “threatens” by having working deterrence, which allows breathing room for development. Overall, the DPRK has been enormously peaceful, while the US Empire doesn’t just threaten but is actively bombing civilians as we speak. The genocidal US Empire is enormously evil.

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          Only in return. The US is training for the invasion of the north together with the occupied souths army every year. Just outside of the norths waters. The US tried to infiltrate the country with spewcial forces recently, they were seen by fishermen, killed the fishers, sunk the bodies and retreated. The South constantly kidnaps DPRK citizens in other countries and sends unwanted shit over. Also not too long ago the US threatened ther DPRK with nuclear obliteration. That is after the US commited a genocide there and prevented food aid from entering the country in the 90s.

          The DPRK isn’t a “cry baby”, they are right.

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              There is no law preventing North Korean Citizens from leaving in the DPRK. In fact over 100k North Koreans work abroad, mainly in China and Russia.

              The reasons North Koreans don’t leave to many other places is entirely do to the US. Since they are sanctioned, the currency of the DPRK is extremely weak, making it incredibly hard to afford any kind if travel outside of the country for one. There’s also the fact that the DPRK has one of the world’s weakest passports, most countries not accepting them without prior approval.

              This also pales at the fact that due to a UN resolution spearheaded by the US, employing North Koreans can mean being sanctioned. The justification being so that DPRK citizens can’t send money back home to their families. They basically have to revoke their Citizenship and forgo ever returning to their families if they want to live outside the country because of these sanctions.

              In a way you’re right that North Koreans can’t leave their country, but not because of their own government but because what the US government.

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                The statement is largely false and misrepresents how movement works in North Korea. In the North Korea, the government strictly controls citizens’ ability to leave the country. Exit is not a right: ordinary citizens cannot freely obtain passports or travel abroad without state permission, which is granted only to a small, vetted group (such as laborers, diplomats, or students). Unauthorized attempts to leave are treated as crimes and can result in severe punishment for both the individual and their family. While it is true that tens of thousands of North Koreans have worked abroad, these workers are carefully selected, monitored, and their earnings are heavily controlled by the state. International sanctions—often coordinated through the United Nations Security Council—do restrict overseas employment and financial flows, but they are not the primary reason citizens cannot freely leave; the main barrier is the DPRK’s own internal system of political control and travel restrictions.

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      Just the fact that the USA can credibly threaten to use nukes means it’s completely rational and normal for everyone else to want nukes of their own. Liberals say Kim Jong-Un is insane specifically because he uses this justification for why the DPRK’s possession and testing of nukes is legitimate, and the western press insists the premise is flawed: That the USA would never ever consider using nukes.

      That’s stupid. They literally already have. And that’s why this threat feels credible too. If the threat is credible (and that’s up to your own interpretation here), then the basis for calling Kim Jong-Un insane is invalid.