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A Land of Prison Camps, Starving Slaves and Nuclear Bombs?

An alternative account to the Western medias blinkered

North Korea Portrayal.

Written by Felix Abt

Table of Contents

Test Your North Korea Knowledge!

Dear Reader,

I invite you to find out how much you have been misled and lied to about North Korea by the media, pundits and activists. Im happy to share insight and a more balanced view of the worlds most isolated, under-reported and misrepresented country.

I thank you for recommending and sharing it with your friends. Your feedback on pages where it is published or discussed is much appreciated.

Felix Abt

Author of A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven Years in the Hermit Kingdom

March 2022

North Koreans, as imagined by Western media consumers.

North Korean students discussing business with the author.

One of those Images the Western Media didnt want you to see!

Apart from planned encounters there were also unplanned ones like this spontaneous, friendly invitation by ordinary North Koreans offering beer and food to Felix Abt and his wife Huong (sitting on the floor) during a national holiday.

Compare that with what Western media, such as The Atlantic , keep telling you: As you view images {from North Korea}, keep in mind that the photographers are strictly limited, only able to capture pre-approved subjects in sanctioned settings () in a tightly controlled society.

Copyright Felix Abt

All photos and illustrations are the property of the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing and photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the author.

The Driving Force Behind the Worlds Oldest Propaganda War

For decades the United States has been waging a vitriolic public-opinion war against North Korea. It is a necessary bogeyman to persuade the American taxpayers that the mammoth defense budgets for the benefit of one of its largest and most profitable industries, is justified.

The U.S. Pentagon (Dept. of Defense) is the worlds largest, most powerful organization, both now and in history. It is also the worlds largest employer with 3.2 million men and women on its roster; and as they still dont suffice it hires additional large numbers of mercenaries a.k.a. private contractors for its wars. Furthermore, Americas massive private war industry accounts for 20% of all U.S. manufacturing jobs and for a multitude of additional jobs in high profile tech companies, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Palantir, which receive multi-billion US$ contracts from the U.S. military.

Demonizing North Korea, as well as other countries portrayed as enemies, and ramping up the alleged threat posed by them, has been calculated to also validate the insatiable giant war machines neo-imperialistic presence globally. It is almost ceaselessly at war and has more than 750 military bases around the world, notably in proximity to North Koreas, Chinas and Russias borders. By the vilification of North Korea and others, magnifying the supposed threat to American home security, they intended to rationalize their gargantuan budget and dupe their population into accepting the acute underspending on infrastructure, education, healthcare, social welfare and poverty reduction at home.

As explained in the above-mentioned piece the government of the worlds most violent nation keeps most of its wars under wraps; the complicit media prefer not to investigate and unveil them. And the journalists outside the U.S.-supporting Western media bubble such as Julian Assange are hunted and destroyed when they dare to publish truthful information on U.S. war crimes. (Screenshot of The Nations article by Felix Abt)

No moral and legal boundaries for warmongering politicians and their flatterers in academia and the media. (Screenshot by Felix Abt)

In recent years the noise has become less shrill as the hitherto favorite propaganda target has moved away from North Korea towards re-rising China which, unlike North Korea, may potentially pose a challenge to U.S. hegemony. But unlike the Western powers and contrary to their propaganda the former Middle Kingdom does not want to rule the world.

Not every criticism of North Korea is unfounded, but the concerted propaganda attacks by the West were never meant to better the country or to bring it in from the cold. They only led to growing mistrust, driving the country further into isolation and hardship. Anti-North Korea was the conventional standpoint of the time, as it is now anti-China. This is what people wanted to hear; the thing outraged politicians and allegedly brutalized defectors talked about; the talking points by Americas political decision makers from both parties, Democratic and Republican, that are in the pocket of the military-industrial complex; the open and hidden agendas that got funding from government organizations and billionaires; the mission that NGOs, thinks tanks and news outlets took upon themselves and the opinions which censured an academics or journalists career if they failed to live up to them.

The Forgotten War that became Americas Longest Forever War

Pushing an agenda that has drawn an evil caricature of a country whose counterpropaganda is rather naive, clumsier than that of China s , and crude compared to the sophisticated, more subtle US-led Western propaganda was easy. Undoubtedly augmented by the nature of news in the West which functions as a commercial capitalist commodity by being able to entertain, appeal, shock and scare its audiences. Sober, disinterested news and balanced reporting that cant generate sufficient clicks and views to make them profitable and sustainable isnt part of the business model. Such media became the ideal megaphone for the U.S. government to spread its propaganda, which it began decades before the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) was even founded, making the United States the oldest and most experienced world leader at manipulating the masses.

The decades-long propaganda war was just a prelude to a potentially highly profitable second hot war against North Korea. The Korean War, one of the worlds most brutal wars, was halted with an armistice in 1953. However, it never ended as the U.S. has refused to sign a peace treaty and to normalize its relations with North Korea to this day.

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