If DPRK is field testing their missiles in Ukraine that lets them confirm that they can effectively bypass NATO defences, and that's a nightmare for the occupied Korea.
Russia Is Firing North Korean Ballistic Missiles At Ukraine
Does South Korea have any significant vanguard party right now? Have the workers developed class consciousness?
I don’t think South Korea has anything to worry about in the short to medium term, because I can’t see North Korea making the mistake of rolling tanks into a country where the masses aren’t ready to welcome them.
The leader is very unpopular, his approval rating is currently 20% approval, 71% disapproval according to Morning Consult, reaching lows of 18% approval, 75% disapproval.
Also there have been strikes against neoliberalism, US robbing the country, anti-war protests and getting the president to resign. Ryomyong.com covers resistance to him. http://ryomyong.com/index.php?page=south
As for a SK communist party, there's http://pdp21.kr/ but it's small, there's also Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front which is an underground DPRK org in SK.
As for a SK communist party, there's http://pdp21.kr/ but it's small
For reasons relating to South Korean Law, there are no communist parties in South Korea. Any political party in the south should not be colloquially called a communist party.
The People's Democracy Party of South Korea for example calls itself a progressive party that calls for pacifism, increased national autonomy from American interference, women's rights and liberation, and a more democratic government that better represents the hard-working citizens and agricultural specialists of South Korea.
So let us be respectful of the PDP and South Korea's laws by not calling any progressive party a communist party. Because that would be illegal.
Does Korea have their own "Vietcong"? By "Vietcong", I meant the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam that was extremely popular with the South Vietnamese populace, especially in the countryside.
Without a "Vietcong", I can't imagine any way that DPRK is going to unify Korea.
The DPRK is popular in the ROK, but it’s hard for me to see North or South Koreans supporting another Korean War. Most South Koreans, in my experience (lived there for years and married one as an ESL teacher) view Japan, the USA, and (sadly) China as the enemy.
The DPRK is popular in the ROK
It is? Does the average person see through the propaganda?
Missile interception and defence has always been a large grift, since the Reagan era "star wars" nonsense, followed by the Israeli Iron Dome. Outside of basic projectiles or slower moving objects, it's incredibly hard to intercept something. Objects traveling at multiple times the speed of sound with the capability to steer themselves (which the latest North Korean missiles are capable of, someone please correct me if I'm wrong) are going to be very difficult to intercept with current technology.
Though I guess it's good to put the theory into practice.
Even though I still think the DPRK is too weak militarily to retake their lands, it's impressive that they managed to still build missiles despite the crippling sanctions.
People tend to underestimate just how technologically advanced DPRK really is. Western propaganda keeps trying to paint it like some backwards state that's about to collapse and where everybody is starving. However, it used to be a major industrial hub in the days of USSR. It has a highly educated workforce, and they just got unlucky with resources and lack of arable land. Now that Russia is full on cooperating with DPRK, I expect we'll be seeing a lot of economic growth happening there.
Russia has food and fuel which are the two things DPRK needs, meanwhile Russia has a problem with an overheating economy where there's already practically full employment. So, they actually need industrial partners and workers to expand their industry. And this is where DPRK comes in with having a strong industrial base and a skilled workforce. They already started opening up special economic zones for this.
The DPRK is literally the perfect example of a civilization building game where you have everything you CAN max out, maxed out, and are only kneecapped by the game having a pre determined point at which you are allowed new resources. So the second you get said resources you just fucking explode out of the gate.
They are doing all they can with limited resources. They have the work force, education, drive, etc. Once more countries stop caring about what the US says and starts trading with them they will advance so rapidly they might have to worry about cultural whiplash.
Highly reccomend this book
Its a collection of indie artists from NK, curated by a UK artist; he says in the book from just travelling around and going place to place in NK over 30 years he got meeting some of the most talented artists hes ever seen, comparing some of the wood etchings they saw with masters of respective crafts like da vinci.
Its also just a really good insight into how NK people view themselves
Nkw granted it's not in the same league as the west but still impressive imo that the DPRK managed to thrive in such an environment.
They dedicate a lot of resources to the military and i expect them to be much more efficiently used than in the west.
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Why would the DPRK ever need the ability to bypass North Atlantic Treaty Organization defenses when the DPRK is nowhere near the North Atlantic? Somebody who is good at geopolitics please explain
NATO forces invaded North Korea during the Korean war, and they'll do it again if given the opportunity.
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/korean-war-1950-1953/korean-war/armed-forces/united-nations-forces-korean-war
NATO is a coalition of reactionary forces against socialism. And North Korea is socialist.
If not joke post, South Korea is an strategic partner of the US and likely uses the same countermeasures. It's unlikely that the US has different defenses for NATO and other theaters, the money in their MIC is exorbitant but not unlimited lol.
It is a joke but I love my comrades for engaging in good faith
NATO club, no DPRK allowed