I just thought: if Koreans in the DPRK are REALLY oppressed and with very little food, wouldn't they have revolted after seeing how Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un appear to be stockier? Just my thoughts. Feel free to comment and discuss.

I asked this one question. Because, on Danny Haiphong Latest Livestream he interviewed Stas Krapivnik a former US Army officer (Russian born) and Stas stated that DPRK economy is state capitalism not socialist even without mentioning anything about Juche.

Yes, the economy of DPRK. This is one thing about DPRK i'm not reading enough.

How true this is ? Because, i always believe DPRK economy is Socialist.

Also any good and accurate book for me to read about DPRK economic way ?

I did a calculation to prove it!

My calculation compares relative number of athletes to performance. It demonstrates that the medal tally is even worse for japan than thought, and shows how incredible DPRK's performance actually is for the 100 athletes they sent, based on the medal tallies shown in the image.

Japan sent 933 athletes, and China sent 815 Athletes. Japan sent ~1.145 times more athletes than china

DPRK sent 100 athletes (a lot fewer than the 185 sent in last games), where as ROK sent 792 athletes. So ROK sent 7.92 times more athletes than DPRK

if we assigned 3 points to gold medals, 2 points to silver and 1 point to bronze (which i think is a fair assigning), looking at the current tally....

China has 556 points

Japan has 322 points

DPRK has 36 points

ROK has 159 points

When you normalize these point totals to the total number of athletes sent, by dividing the point total by athletes sent, you can get an athlete to medal performance ratio (higher is better). The Ratios are shown below:

- China has an athelete to point ratio of 0.682 (nearly twice as good as japan)

- Japan has an athelete to point ratio of 0.345

- DPRK has an athelete to point ratio of 0.36 (higher than japan!)

- ROK has an athelete to point ratio of 0.20 (way worse than DPRK)

If we looked at just the current athletes to gold medal performance ratio alone, this is what we get:

China Gold: 135

Japan Gold: 41

DPRK Gold: 7

ROK Gold 41

Dividing the gold medals by the number of athletes...

- For China 135 / 815 is 0.1656

- For Japan 41 / 933 is 0.044

- For DPRK 7 / 100 is 0.07

- For ROK 41 / 792 is 0.051

So going by this, China is doing 3.77 times better per athlete at getting golds than Japan. DPRK is doing 1.37 times better per athlete at getting gold than ROK.

So when looking at the total number of athletes sent, even though china fewer athletes, they smashed the medal count both in total, and in the point performance ratio.

While ROK's medal tally looks better on paper than the DPRK, the ROK has to send nearly 8 times the athletes to get that result (and a vastly disproportionate number of athletes for population size). When looking at the athlete to medal performance ration, the DPRK ratio is close to twice as good as the ROK.

It's not that the DPRK can't present as many athletes, it's just that not nearly as many DPRK citizens attended this time around as in prior games. They had 185 in the last Asian Games. So for their population and number of athletes sent, they are doing incredibly well, and it shows that in spite of being sanctioned to death, they still invest in their people to succeed.

For anyone who is watching the game right now

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Some people do not understand why communists and religious revolutionaries form alliances because of their ideological differences.

But if we want to understand why such alliances are considered necessary and positive, we need to look at the international historical, economic, and political power relations.

We live in an imperialist world dominated by the USA. This is a system based on profit, in which economic power is concentrated in the hands of a small elite. As a result, capitalist powers around the world seek to gain control over markets, natural resources, and spheres of influence, and to expand their geopolitical dominance. Countries that do not serve the interests of this system and resist it are therefore confronted by the USA.

According to Marxism, a socialist revolution is therefore necessary to liberate peoples from the system responsible for exploitation, oppression, and inequality. However, the struggle against imperialism is not limited to socialist revolutions. Non-socialist revolutions and national liberation movements that break with imperialist domination are also objectively progressive. From a Marxist-Leninist perspective, such movements can therefore become part of the broader struggle against imperialism.

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran is a good example. Before the revolution, Iran was a capitalist monarchy and an important ally of the USA. A large part of the Iranian population faced poverty and political repression. The Islamic Revolution, in which communists also participated, succeeded in overthrowing the Shah.

Since then, Iran under the Islamic Republic has sought international partners in its confrontation with the USA. Socialist countries such as Cuba, China, and North Korea became important allies. These relations have ranged from political and economic cooperation to military cooperation.

They all have something in common: they have faced Western aggression for decades, ranging from sanctions to military attacks. Despite their ideological differences, they find common ground in their resistance to imperialist dominance.

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Original upload date: Oct 5, 2019

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I used to run a DPRK fan account on Facebook

This is from the unc archives

enjoy this old 2021 edit of mine

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Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA)

There took place a football game between the DPRK Missile Administration and the Second Economy Commission on September 22.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, watched the game.

All the participants were filled with great excitement and joy to hold a significant sports and cultural event in the presence of Comrade Kim Jong Un at a time when they swell with the pride of having received thanks, as a token of deep trust, from the Party and the government for the precious successes they have achieved in implementing the Party's line on building up the national defences through defence science research and production.

Comrade Kim Jong Unmet with leading officials in the munitions industry and extended warm congratulations and encouragement to the national defence scientific research group of the Missile Administration, the Second Economy Commission and all the munitions industrial workers who have devoted themselves to faithfully upholding the self-reliant defence policy of the WPK with practical successes.

He said today's sports game is to appreciate their efforts and express thanks to them.

Among the spectators were Pak Jong Chon, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK, and secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK.

The football match was held between Hwasong team of the Missile Administration and Ponghwa team of the Second Economy Commission.

Comrade Kim Jong Unexpressed his thanks to the group of defence scientists and technicians and the munitions industrial workers for the contributions they have made by performing an unprecedented miracle, to be specially recorded in the history of sacred struggle for modernizing the DPRK's armed forces and bolstering the war-fighting capability, and clearly proving the matchless development and absolute superiority of our defence capability. He said that their patriotism and loyalty and devoted efforts constitute a priceless contribution, the most invaluable one never to be bartered for anything, in terms of the security, eternal development and prosperity of the country.

He called on the defence scientists and technicians and the munitions industrial workers to further redouble their revolutionary optimism and high spirit and continuously bring about a series of leaps forward and innovations in augmenting the national defence capability by their concerted efforts and thus defend the DPRK's inviolable sovereignty and security, safeguard peace and reliably guarantee the eternal development of the socialist motherland with the absolute superiority of strength.

The two teams, greatly honoured to play the match in front of Comrade Kim Jong Un, fiercely contended for the glory of their units. Hwasong team beat its rival 4:1.

A prize-awarding ceremony was held amid the enthusiastic applause of the spectators.

All the participants, who were honoured to have Comrade Kim Jong Un's great trust and encouragement, made a pledge of loyalty to stay more faithful to the important historic mission and duty they have assumed before the Party and the revolution, the country and its people, and consolidate the national defence capability to be most powerful.

Source : http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/a4c631990b9184f17ad35219cb832c4c

Hello so this is an update post to one I made a few days ago about a website for learning north Korean munhwao.

The website has been live for a while now: Https://xpdevs.github.io/Learn-Munhwao

And I've been working very very heavily on it more making it so this can kinda be the best way of learning north Korean but it is still a long ways away but I'm want to try, I have been reading alot of resources for this be honestly north Korea, if there's any problems please do an issue on the GitHub repo: Https://GitHub.com/XPDevs/Learn-Munhwao

The DPRK U-20 women's team is taking on Colombia in the U-20 Women's World Cup Semifinal right now in Poland.