Thread by @BonicMichael

Anthony Ruggiero: “…the North Korean regime is not actually as interested in the North Korean people as these humanitarian organizations.”
WRONG. KJU is ACTUALLY doing everything he can to boost economy, grow food & build housing UNDER BRUTAL SANCTIONS.
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https://twitter.com/nknewsorg/status/1389988348958232576

2/Ruggiero typifies the error of erudition not based in the real world but in a fictitious construct that is real only in the subjective imagination. I.e that's "all in the mind". He's actually saying that the Workers' Party of Korea "isn't interested in the North Korean people".

3/He gets to be taken to task for what is one of the most ignorant comments I've ever heard from a supposed "expert". So KJU is "not interested" in improving DPRK's economy??

Kim Jong Un's big plan to grow North Korea's economy faces harsh reality
reuters.com/article/us-nor…

4/“In remarks released this weekend, Kim blamed international sanctions as well as unanticipated crises including the coronavirus pandemic and natural disasters, for preventing the government from improving people’s lives, while criticising officials for mistakes that needed to

5/"be fixed.”
Wait - AR is going to say: "Excuses, excuses..." right? Yeah right.

KJU is dedicated to improving agriculture thru science & tech.

Realities N. Korea faces in improving agricultural production
dailynk.com/english/realit…

6/"Calling the agricultural front the main battlefront of the frontal breakthrough campaign, Workers’ Party of Korea Chairman Kim Jong Un stressed the need to adopt scientific farming methods and stimulate the bumper crop fever with greater vigor. He also underlined key points in

7/"the efforts to bring about a new change in each and every agricultural field including livestock and fruit farming: the need to strengthen agricultural science and technology and support for agricultural science research organizations; the need to promote the development of

8/'human talent in the agricultural sciences; the need to comprehensively complete the irrigation of farms (including produce, livestock, fruit, and silkworm farming), thereby furnishing an agricultural infrastructure free from poor harvests; the need to increase the

9/"mechanization of agricultural processes and manage the country’s farmland from a single point in a unified fashion."
AR didn't know this? What's his excuse? Ignorance. Got it.

Anthony Ruggiero's comment is an ugly manifestation of the Western arrogance, ignorance & woefully

10/depleted IQ that permeates US North Korea policy. The reality is that the WPK cares MORE for its children & their education K-U than the US does its own:

I Missed You, My School: PYONGYANG TOUR SERIES. Narrated by North Korea's Un A.

11/Dandelion (Mindullae Notebook Factory): PYONGYANG TOUR SERIES. Narrated by North Korea's Un A.

12/Child Health Day: PYONGYANG TOUR SERIES. Narrated by North Korea's Un A

13/BREAKTHROUGH HEAD-ON 2: DPRK tackles the hardships of sanctions, COVID-19 & flooding head-on.

14/Here the first iPad makes its splash in the DPRK on a select group of music club students. These teens are happier than most American teens in their school.

Pyongyang: First iPad impact on NorthKorea 北朝鮮 iPadの衝撃(平壌の世界134)

15/DPRK cares enough about its students that it allows them to learn the rudiments of Western rock music.

Pyongyang:Rock Lesson 16beats - North Korea 北朝鮮でロックレッスン(平壌の世界187)

16/Education in North Korea
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education…
“Education in North Korea is universal and state-funded schooling by the government...Children go through one year of kindergarten, four years of primary education, six years of secondary education, and then on to university..."

17/One can only conclude that Anthony Ruggiero is just a heartless arrogant toad who gets paid $$$ to slander the DPRK as some terrible place where the "North Korean regime is not actually as interested in the North Korean people as these humanitarian organizations." he says:

18/“And certainly, [humanitarian workers] are the ones that are working for the North Korean people."

AR is addicted to the Kool-Aide he's been raised on and the blue pill that keeps him comfortably numb within the matrix of US/Pentagon propaganda narrative. Reality is too much

19/for people like AR. It's a lot easier to withdraw into a subjective bubble of delusional fiction than to admit you're wildly wrong and light years from the truth. You can almost hear him say: "What, me wrong? That's impossible! I'm always right!" Sure you are AR. Sure you are.

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