The Western media are just as excited as the North Korean soldiers because they can enjoy porn in Russia and experience how sexy freedom is.
Headline by Newsweek
The North Koreans are used to the omnipresent propaganda in their country and see through it because it is easy to see through.
In the West, the propaganda is less intrusive, but also omnipresent.
Media consumers in the West truly believe that they are well informed because they cannot recognize the more subtle and sophisticated propaganda. This is not surprising, because the propaganda in the West is actually much harder to see through than in North Korea. (In this context, I recommend the article “Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works” by John Pilger, which explains very well how it is practiced in the West).
So let’s take the example of the porn-hungry North Korean soldiers. Western media consumers believe they know that North Korea is sealed off from the outside world, which is why porn, which is banned there, cannot even enter the country, apart from the fact that the possession and consumption of porn would result in immediate deportation to the gulag or immediate execution.
I spent seven years in North Korea and interacted with countless people from all walks of life and from urban and rural areas, and I was surprised at how well informed they were about the outside world. They knew much more about other countries than people in the West knew about North Korea.
Western media consumers learn that the borders have been hermetically sealed by the “evil dictator” in the hermit kingdom and do not know how permeable they are. Nor do they know that hundred thousand North Koreans work in China and that thousands enter and leave the country every year. Twenty years ago, South Korean dramas, Hollywood movies and pornography were already circulating in North Korea on USB data carriers. They all entered the country via China. And back then, if you wanted to make a North Korean happy, you gave him an empty USB stick because he already knew how to fill it. When I asked North Koreans if they had ever seen pornography, they often replied with a resounding laugh and thought: “How can these Westerners be so naive!”
Headline by the Korea Times
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Felix Abt is the author of the books “A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven Years in the Hermit Kingdon” and “A Land of Prison Camps, Starving Slaves and Nuclear Bombs?”. You can find his Amazon author profile here.
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Read the related piece “North Korean Soldiers at War Against Ukraine — Only in the Imagination of Zelensky and his Western Supporters!”
And here is the quote of the day:
“You heard these reports about North Korean troops supposedly in Eastern Ukraine. It’s a total lie. There is no evidence to support that. The people using satellites watching carefully have seen no-one on the ground that resembles anybody from North Korea. The only North Korean troops in Russia are in Eastern Siberia. They are not West of the Ural. So there is none of that. This is being used as another excuse for escalating the war.”
Ret. Colonel Doug Macgregor was appointed Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense by the US President in 2020, a position he held until President Trump left office. He holds an MA in comparative politics and a PhD in international relations from the University of Virginia and has written five books.
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