Found this video about how Americans live. North Korean propaganda says we eat birds. All countries distort the truth, even ‘Merica. I wish more people understood this.

[–] imnotfromkaliningrad@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the video was actually not made by north korea. it is a parody created by a british comedy director. dprk media typically depicts the us in a fairly accurate manner, or at least more truthfully than how american media portrays korea.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m so gullible. I wanted to make coffee out of snow after this video. I thought this was real too, until my wife told me it had to be fake. I wanted it to be real.

[–] imnotfromkaliningrad@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i feel ya, western propaganda against korea is sadly hard to undo, considering the sheer amount of it. a great way to do it through is to read korean history, with a wonderful beginners read on the topic being this book. after a while you realize that many of the claims against the dprk are often nothing but simple projection, like for example haircut policing being an actual thing in 1980s south korea.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the book recommendation. I’ll save it for my list.