Ok, so western press exagerates or tell straight up lies on details and defectors could not be trusted everytime, but they tell coherent stories
They don’t actually tell coherent stories. Just check Yeonmi Park, whose absurd claims are eadily debunked. My point is that defectors are paid to tell outlandish stories.
but I still think we have enough proofs to see that NK is not a great country to live and that its government is at fault.
This is absurd. The DPRK had 80% of its buildings destroyed in the Korean War, along with 20% of their population. In the 90s, their biggest trading partner was dissolved. Throughout all of this, extremely brutal sanctions have been placed on then. Like Cuba, their shortcomings are overwhelmingly due to the harsh embargoes.
So why is it so difficult for foreign journalists to comme to NK ?
It isn’t, really, just western journalists. Part of this is due to the DPRK being rightfully suspicious of western sabateurs, and part of this is due to western countries restricting their own travel there.
If NK’s situation is as good as you suggest, why not showing it ?
They do, though the west usually claims everyone is “acting” or other such nonsense.
In absence of more trustworthy sources
Why is publicly owned news media unreliable? This inherent distrust of public media over private reeks of chauvanism.
I consider that the coherent reports told by people who actually went there and were of different horizons (defectors, some journalists of different countries) could be at least partially trusted.
It would be extremly unlikely that NK turns out to be a socialist paradise that was hidden from us.
It isn’t a paradise. Embargoes and sanctions have dramatically stunted development. It is, however, extremely resiliant and regularly improving.
I do not know if you consider Reporters Without Borders as another capitalist spawn because it has its headquarters in a western country (France), but its survey of press freedom in NK is explicit. So again, why not showing to us westerners how much we are wrong ?
Reporters Without Borders is western biased, and the fact that private, capitalist press is restricted in a socialist country isn’t anything new. The fact is, you don’t trust anything reported by the DPRK itself, such as KCNA, nor even outlets like South China Morning Post, which ran a report on Pyongyang’s expansion.
They don’t actually tell coherent stories. Just check Yeonmi Park, whose absurd claims are eadily debunked. My point is that defectors are paid to tell outlandish stories.
This is absurd. The DPRK had 80% of its buildings destroyed in the Korean War, along with 20% of their population. In the 90s, their biggest trading partner was dissolved. Throughout all of this, extremely brutal sanctions have been placed on then. Like Cuba, their shortcomings are overwhelmingly due to the harsh embargoes.
It isn’t, really, just western journalists. Part of this is due to the DPRK being rightfully suspicious of western sabateurs, and part of this is due to western countries restricting their own travel there.
They do, though the west usually claims everyone is “acting” or other such nonsense.
Why is publicly owned news media unreliable? This inherent distrust of public media over private reeks of chauvanism.
Then watch My Brothers and Sisters in the North, from a journalist that had to give up her ROK citizenship. Won awards in Germany. Also, check Sally Yin’s twitter posts, showing daily life in various cities in the DPRK.
It isn’t a paradise. Embargoes and sanctions have dramatically stunted development. It is, however, extremely resiliant and regularly improving.
Reporters Without Borders is western biased, and the fact that private, capitalist press is restricted in a socialist country isn’t anything new. The fact is, you don’t trust anything reported by the DPRK itself, such as KCNA, nor even outlets like South China Morning Post, which ran a report on Pyongyang’s expansion.