Eqeuls wrote:From wikipedia
- democratic as in the people can vote
- as in the people can only vote no by using a red pen which is oversighted by a policeman
From youtubes documentary "DPRK: The Land Of Whispers"
- tourists are only allowed to film statues and pictures of the leader in a lower angle (frog view)
- lower angle as in a demostration of power to the picture or statue or in other words the leader
- you are not allowed to fold a newspaper in half in which the leader is depicted
- you are not allowed to interact with the locals
- every staff/guide is talking about the goverment and the leader in a respectful manner
- no critic, as if they're silenced if they would speak out
- the vloger in this documentary said this: questions were not appreciated and answers were not given.
- = hiding something? = fear of something? =/= free people?
"Democratic as in the people can vote as in the people can only vote no by using a red pen which is oversighted by a policeman"
Heard this claim a lot, but there is no evidence for it. The evidence points to the DPRK being a Proportional representation democracy, this is shown in that the second largest party used to be the Chondoist Chongu Party but are now the Social Democrats. The Workers' Party (Party of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un) has also lost seats in the past. An actual example of a country that is only democratic in the sense that people can vote is the United States of America, where people elect their electors, and this lead to Al Gore losing the 2000 election despite getting the popular vote. In my opinion, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC and other Capitalist western media outlets ought to worry about democracy in their own countries before complaining about North Korea!
Your claims from the documentary "Land of Whispers"
This film is almost definitely propaganda. One of the claims I can debunk directly, which is that you are not allowed to interact with the locals. This is disproved from a man who traveled to the DPRK and did a Reddit AMA when he got back:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ ... ma/d89k7gl. There are also other comments there which you can check out. This man seems pretty biased against the DPRK despite having visited it and still having no evidence to back up his claims that it is a totalitarian dictatorship. Your other claims, I can not directly debunk, however as the burden of proof is on the one making the claim, I think it is the responsibility of the person who made that video to back up his claims.
Thank you for your correspondence.
