In the wake of Yun Seok-yul's abortive coup attempt, the left-wing party (DP) has been racing to take complete control over the government and imprison those oppose them. Remember that the rightoids were saying that they were doing the coup because "pro-North Korea" forces were plotting against the country. I don't know if he was actually correct or the DP are just being opportunistic, but it makes all this a heck of a lot more morally gray. The DP:
Is legit pro-North Korea. (Seriously bro, look at these people going back to the 1970s.)
Impeached Yun Seok-yul but then impeached his successor after that. They're on the third guy in line and threatening to impeach him. That would cause total chaos because that's how far their line of succession goes. Apparently they intend to topple the executive branch and cause a constitutional crisis.
The leader of the impeachment team is a pro-North Korea terrorist. No literally, he was handing out Juche leaflets and bombed the US Ambassador's residence.
They want to immediately ban "fake news" in personal text messages.
Polls show that suddenly people don't think the rightoids are that bad in comparison anymore. Leftoids claim that the polls suddenly all became biased against them so it must be a conspiracy. Where have I heard that one before?
Of course you'll never hear about this in the mainstream western media. They keep portraying the idea that there's any ties between the South Korean left and North Korea as a conspiracy theory. That's one of those big fricking red flags, when they're completely open about this within their own country but spin a completely different story for foreigners.
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Half the reason they're pro nork was because NK had higher living standards than SK until about 30 years ago which explains the 70s support.
It doesn't mean NK was better, it just meant that SK was run like shit.
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30 years ago...
...was fricking 1995, r-slur.
It already had roughly the same standard of living that it does now.
North Korea may have been doing better economically into the 1960s, 60 years ago. Of course on the other hand you have to deal with all the commie bullshit.
That has nothing to do with support for NK in the South. For one thing, nobody had any idea what things were like up there because it was illegal to talk about. Your only information about NK would be from propaganda from both sides and they could just freely make up whatever they wanted to. It has its roots in regional animosities that date back long before communism and especially in butthurt young people in the 386 generation who wanted to rebel against their parents.
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