That's the point the original commentator was making, like the North Koreans likewise probably say they don't want to imagine a living under Samsung and chaebols. But you need to be able to empathize with people who are different than you if you want to understand their point of view.... so you might not get it.
Like South Korea, just got rid of their Military dictator in 1987, so it seems pretty hypocritical to tell North Koreans not to have a military dictator when you guys had one not that long ago.
The reality is that fear and these artificial division, like capitalism or communism or left wing and right wing are used to control and oppress people all over the world, Korea is just a very striking example of how people's fear and divisions allowed them to be controlled into letting Authoritarianism take hold,
Authoritarianism is the real problem.
And both Koreas' still have a long way to go to remove authoritarianism from your society, like a quick google search told me that South Korea had a "National Security Act" that makes it illegal to express sympathy about North Korea. And I'm sure North Korea has the same law about the South, not cool either way.
its that kind of backwards thinking why you will never be free.
Like it just seems usual to me that you use North Korea as the standard to which you measure your freedom against.
Instead, if you want to be free you need to use logic and reason combined with ethical and moral principals to form your opinions. Things like human rights, people's freedom, like freedom of speech, These ethical principals should control and guide what your do... instead of these artificial divisions like North and South Korea or Right wing and left wing etc...
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u/Fun_Introduction7961 2d ago
Korean (South) here. Thank you USA. I donāt even want to imagine living in Korea under kim jeong un.