I wonder if that’s why the DPRK, out of all AES nations, gets so much outrageous propaganda pushed about them? Even China doesn’t get the same extreme levels of fantastical claims. The goal is to stop people ever even taking that first step towards thinking about it as a real country, it needs to be a fictional villain that is cartoonishly evil in order for the western viewpoint of the country to even exist.
I think the DPRK gets it because it’s an entire business in South Korea to sell salacious rumors to newspapers. South Korea has entire media empires built specifically on selling shocking stories from defectors or spies or whatever. Since the UN doesn’t allow North Koreans to travel freely, it’s easy to make up whatever you want and get no backlash.
My favorite part of the interview is that the movie presents DPRK’s citizens as brainwashed by violent media that depicts the deaths of foreign politicians. The Interview’s climax is a gratuitous slow motion shot of Kim Jong-un dying in a helicopter explosion. If it was satire it would be brilliant.
The DPRK is a lot more culturally, economically and politically isolated than other AES states. It’s easy to counter propaganda about, say, Cuba, because despite the USs best efforts Cuba does have some stronger geopolitical allies who are willing and able to counter the more egregious disinfo about them. The DPRKs allies are all states the West hates and doesn’t take seriously.
I wonder if that’s why the DPRK, out of all AES nations, gets so much outrageous propaganda pushed about them? Even China doesn’t get the same extreme levels of fantastical claims. The goal is to stop people ever even taking that first step towards thinking about it as a real country, it needs to be a fictional villain that is cartoonishly evil in order for the western viewpoint of the country to even exist.
I think the DPRK gets it because it’s an entire business in South Korea to sell salacious rumors to newspapers. South Korea has entire media empires built specifically on selling shocking stories from defectors or spies or whatever. Since the UN doesn’t allow North Koreans to travel freely, it’s easy to make up whatever you want and get no backlash.
People probably think The Interview was a documentary
My favorite part of the interview is that the movie presents DPRK’s citizens as brainwashed by violent media that depicts the deaths of foreign politicians. The Interview’s climax is a gratuitous slow motion shot of Kim Jong-un dying in a helicopter explosion. If it was satire it would be brilliant.
The DPRK is a lot more culturally, economically and politically isolated than other AES states. It’s easy to counter propaganda about, say, Cuba, because despite the USs best efforts Cuba does have some stronger geopolitical allies who are willing and able to counter the more egregious disinfo about them. The DPRKs allies are all states the West hates and doesn’t take seriously.
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