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The Idler
6th March 2016, 12:25
I feel like there should be a trigger warning for this but is this something to be considered "progressive" even? How can groups like Friends of North Korea defend this sexist language?

In perhaps its lengthiest and harshest verbal attack on Park since she took office in 2013, the North's official Korean Central News Agency on Saturday called her a "tailless, old, insane *****," a "senile old woman" and a "murderous demon" destined to meet "a sudden and violent death."
This was likely a response to her reaction to the North's recent nuclear test and rocket launch. She closed a jointly run factory park, started missile defense talks with Washington and mentioned the potential for a "regime collapse" in Pyongyang, something North Korea's dictator is extremely sensitive about.
KCNA wrote that Park complains about North Korean nukes, but "takes much pleasure and even throws out her underwear in welcoming the murderous nuclear war devices brought in by the American Yankees."
North Korea previously called Park a "prostitute" and said she lives on the "groin of her American boss." It has frequently questioned her womanhood because she has no children, which the North labels as an "obligation" for women. North Korea also frequently refers to the "swish of her skirts," a Korean phrase used to describe women seen as overly aggressive.
"The swishes of Park Geun-hye's skirt, created by her American boss, are so unpredictable they're dumbfounding," an unnamed spokesman of the North's Joint National Organization of Working People said in a statement last year published by the KCNA. "This is all because the United States' black, hairy hands reach deep into Park Geun-hye's skirt."
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"RAT-LIKE"
The North's propaganda writers spent years attacking Lee, Park's predecessor, by saying he looked like a rat.
In a statement against Lee during his final days as president in January 2013, the North's Committee for Peaceful Reunification of Korea compared Lee and his "treacherous group" to rats five different times, saying that they should be "beaten (to death) in time" and "completely exterminated."
In July 2012, KCNA said the "death-bed frenzy" of Lee's "group of traitors reminds one of the rat-like hoodlums being dragged to gallows."

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The North hurled racist insults at U.S. President Barack Obama more than once, with Pyongyang's powerful National Defense Commission calling him a "monkey in a tropical forest" in December 2014 over the hacking row involving the movie "The Interview," a comedy that depicts Kim's assassination.
The North's state media has called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a wolf with a "hideous" lantern jaw, and his predecessor, Hillary Clinton, as a "funny lady" who sometimes "looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping."

and crucially

North Korea's overwhelmingly male-dominated culture may have something to do with it as well. Kelly says Pyongyang may not understand that sexist language disgusts many.

Brian Myers, an expert on North Korean propaganda at South Korea's Dongseo University, suggests that young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may either not remember or not care that his country once carefully tailored its propaganda to influence millions of potential leftist sympathizers in the South.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/04e9f94331a6491e8c9507ca40b3f3e7/woman-running-s-korea-norths-insults-get-uglier

Blake's Baby
6th March 2016, 12:38
Does anyone on RevLeft defend North Korea in any way?

The Idler
6th March 2016, 18:30
Not many but;
OnFire on 23 August 2015
http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=2848965&postcount=14

North Korea, as one of the last communist countries on Earth today, is always in the center of capitalist propaganda. While the Juche is no longer pure marxism-leninism, but rather juche is korean socialism. NK is in fact a country where the population is more free than in the West. Don't believe everything you hear on the news comrades, has anyone of you ever been to NK and seen any crimes against humanity? Who are we to judge?
Many members of the communist platform also show much solidarity with DPRK, and we all should try to defend it from imperialism.Comrade Jacob who left in January 2016 because there were 'no Maoists'.
mrd6736 on 7th September 2015
http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=2850512&postcount=45

The DPRK is just as legitimate of a socialist country as the USSR, GDR, Cuba, Vietnam, etc. I get so tired of leftists who drool over Cuba but shy away from defending the many accomplishments of the DPRK. Whether or not the "Juche" philosophy is consistent with Marxism-Leninism is an issue for the Korean working class to resolve
Destroyer of Illusions on 21st November 2014
http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=2802903&postcount=22


I don't care in the form of government in Korea,ie in superstructure, I care in it's economic base wich,as it is known, works not for profit but to satisfy the needs of workers.

Sinister Cultural Marxist
7th March 2016, 14:21
It is of no surprise that a country which uses such rhetoric against foreign leaders, even bourgeois ones, has more sausage in their state leadership than a Polish meat vendor. Their governing style is fundamentally misogynistic and macho, and this language reflects that. Of course we oppose the RoK's leadership, but not because they're women, but because they are reactionaries - as are, we know well, many of those running the DPRK. It goes to show how deficient folks like Spartacist sympathizers are when they insist that the DPRK is a "deformed worker's state" while insisting that the feminist struggle must be wholly subsumed into the proletarian struggle (granted, I am thinking of those like the poster fka 870 who cannot defend himself since he was banned).