>>24663499
lol what a joke. SK might be a hellish dump but it has some of the highest standards of living in the world, and there's always the option of emigrating elsewhere to find better skilled work for better QoL and living.

DPRK on the other hand, for all the safety nets that come with 'socialist lite' implementations, is literally a real grim parody of Marxism-Leninism, straight out of Animal Farm. If you compare NK to Animal Farm, pretty much every single thing Orwell satirized about he Soviet Union is there, from random about-facing on state policy and "those guys bad these guys kinda alright" to shelving old idols when the current dear leader wants to subsume all credit for all the trumpeted success down to dealing with capitalists and throwing the working class under the bus for profit while selling the image of communism to the workers at home and finally to the existence of the literal bleating sheep from Animal Farm (people droning 'Manse' whenever Kim shows up).