r/northkorea

These people can claim they love their country, so why the f are they in Asia in places like Thailand and Vietnam?

Every time someone says North Korea is bad because people are leaving, I will always bring up the stat of Americans and other westerners leaving their homes.

Last year, 180000 Americans left their country to live abroad. That's a huge number.

Americans are lucky to have a strong passport so they can live anywhere they want. I don't blame them for leaving. No one wants to live in an environment where they're struggling to survive but at the same time they must realise the immense privilege they have over other people of the world. People in the global south cannot afford to leave easily due to lack of resources AND weak passports.

Your average African has to save up several months of salary just to apply for a visa for a country abroad. They don't have visa-free access like Americans.

People can claim to lofty ideals but the reason people move out is due to almost always poverty, not politics.

If that many people are leaving the USA, then the richest capitalist country is performing as badly as one of the poorest communist countries out there.

That should shut the anti-communists up.

Genuine question, I know Kim Jun Un has issued a travel ban since 2020 because of Covid but travel to NK wasn’t super common even before Covid, and I doubt that the tourists who did visit didn’t even go to enough areas to spread Covid in the first place. Obviously their own citizens can’t travel anywhere outside of NK. So how did North Koreans even get Covid? Or is Kim just completely lying to them and telling them there’s this crazy disease out there when no one has actually gotten sick? I really don’t see what he gains from doing that though since he’s basically already convinced most citizens in North Korea that they’re the best and really the only country on the planet

This is a full translation of North Korea’s latest amended constitution for academic purposes. The DPRK promulgated these constitutional revisions in March 2026.

Doesn't answer me is bad thing my partner flew from Japan to Taiwan end point is Prague.I am RDP Rare disease patient. Wanted only debate about how became friend with north korean because of very rare disease cannot travel to north korea!

I have often heard it said from people that traveled to North Korea that it is spotless (at least Pyongyang, and the places they are allowed to see there). I'm also under the impression that many people there smoke. Anyway, what do they do with their cigarette butts? Carry them? Are there garbage cans everywhere for disposal? Street sweepers get them quickly? Other?

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-I need some more knowledge about how some defectors managed to sneak back into the country, as this will be where the protagonist and his men enter undetected.

-For the entire story, the liberators sneak around disguised as North Korean soldiers and sometimes police officers.

-The liberators start hiding pamphlets explaining the truth about North Korea in public and also people's properties, trying to start an uprising.

-Some liberators and the protagonist end up disabling Kim Jong Un's nuclear network systems.

-There is a scene where one liberator is sent to a prison camp and initiates a successful riot.

-In the climax, the protagonist and his men begin to kill all of North Korea's top politicians, including Kim Jong-Un, his sister, and other top officials. They sneak into the politicians' offices and also Kim Jong Un's residence before using guns, knives, and even mustard gas to stage this mass assassination. I want someone to tell me how someone could possibly trespass into governmental buildings.

I just want advice because obviously AI probably won't do a good job with making it accurate if I asked them and I'm sure many of you guys are more familiar with stuff going on there than me.

Oh, and BTW, I'm not sure if this counts as a "discussion" or "question". I'm sorry if "discussion" isn't right.

On September 9, 2022, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) had adopted and promulgated the decree ‘On the State Policy on Nuclear Forces’ the previous day. The core of this legislation mandates that an automatic nuclear retaliatory strike be initiated immediately should the North Korean leadership, including Kim Jong-un, come under attack. 

The full text of the decree has been translated herein for academic purposes...

Hey guys so sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m not like super well-versed on international politics. I’m just curious as to why China sees North Koreans as illegal migrants rather than refugees? I mean North Korea is obviously not the best country to be in and their citizens go through hell, escaping is exceedingly difficult, so why would China have no compassion and would be so greatly against North Koreans who have bravely escaped their oppressive country, so much so that they threaten to send them back and they often do send them back? South Korea is extremely kind to North Koreans who have escaped, some South Korean soldiers on the border even risk their lives to help escapees.