No government or society is perfect. Socialist experiments are also flawed. But whatever their errors in domestic cultural policies, i will forever appreciate the DPRK for being the single most consistently anti-imperialist state in the world basically since its foundation. No other socialist project has been so consistently on the right side of history, so uncompromising in their revolutionary principles even at great cost to themselves. And while i’m no expert on the DPRK’s domestic economic and social policies, it seems to me like they have managed to achieve amazing things in the face of overwhelming obstacles, the kind of crushing pressures which would surely have led to a less robust system to crumble. Not just managing to survive as a society but to develop their productive forces, their infrastructure, and to become a formidable military power capable of punching far above their weight, and doing this virtually all on their own since the fall of the Soviet Union. Beyond that i don’t feel qualified to judge them because i simply don’t know enough about their internal policies.

violent armed fringes of both the political far right and left who are members of registered U.S. domestic terrorist organizations, have been convicted for violent racial attacks, claimed to have sent Anthrax chemical warfare agents to the President of the United States, been sentenced to mental institutions for threatening to assassinate sitting U.S. presidents, and been imprisoned for plotting terrorist attacks on U.S soil.

Eh… do what you gotta do with whatever you’ve got to do it with.