chapotraphouse

just being anti-american leads to the correct take like 99% of the time

that they only do it to be "anti-american"

Not even a valid argument. If it were true I'd still support them for that as in general that is the right position to take. Very few times will it place you on the wrong side, especially with the US entirely gutting its few mildly benevolent manipulation programs like medical and food aid to the rest of the world you don't even have to contend with "b-buuut USAID gives starving people food, even if it is a front of the CIA and has had campaigns trying to overthrow the Cuban government". Because well now they don't. They've even gutted the few public goods they founded for their own imperial core citizens like PBS, very limited public healthcare/medicare, homeless assistance, etc.

And really why might the DPRK be anti-American? Anyone? Anyone? Yes it's because of the genocidal attack of the US against them in the 50s Korean war. Its because the west installed and propped up a dictatorship in the south and separated families for decades. It's because the US regularly conducts military "defensive drills" simulating an attack against a state they nearly destroyed but for the help of its neighbor that still has trauma from that and does not want the experience of fighting the Americans again. Meanwhile the north conducts no such drills. It's because they have been heavily sanctioned by the US and the UN at the urging of the US for decades. It's because they never got a formal peace treaty and are still technically at war with the country occupying their south.

Imagine being so incredibly self-centered that you think the entire government of a country gives a shit about some nobody Amerikkkan chauvinist’s fee-fees and strategizes based on how much it makes them angry

Liberals live in an alternate reality

I mean, the United States bombed them so much the surface became uninhabitable, and they resorted to living in caves.

If anyone has a right to purely do things because they're anti-American, it's the DPRK

The DPRK benefited greatly from the Sino-Soviet split, as neither side wanted the DPRK to lean towards the other and so it received a good deal of resources and assistance from both sides to maintain its neutrality.

Most people don’t know that even after being bombed to hell during the Korean War, Japan and the DPRK were the two Asian economies hailed as the rising stars in the 1960s with very high level of industrialization and living standards, even before the rise of South Korea and Taiwan in the 1980s, and later in the 1990s, China.