Thread by @agent_of_change

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For a socialist or anti-imperialist not to support the DPRK is untenable. We're talking about a country that has been building socialism for 70 years. Like any such process it has contradictions and problems, but the default position for the left must be one of support...

North Korea faced a genocidal war in which 3 million of its people were killed and its entire infrastructure destroyed. It continues to face an ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation by the US - the most heavily-armed political entity in the history of the world...

The DPRK suffers cruel economic sanctions, the sole purpose of which is to suffocate and destabilise a country that refuses to go along with imperialist domination. These sanctions are the principal contributor to the economic problems the DPRK has experienced in recent years...

The DPRK is treated with the most unbelievable levels of contempt, hatred and demonisation in the western media. Why? Are Bahrain and Saudi Arabia - far less democratic, far less equal, far more violent states - treated that way? Nothing of the sort...

On the international stage, DPRK stands unashamedly with Cuba, Syria, China, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Iran, Belarus, Nicaragua and all progressive/socialist countries worldwide. Its record of international solidarity includes military training & assistance to liberation struggles...

DPRK has had to make a lot of sacrifices just to survive. Without a focus on self-defence, it wouldn't still exist. It would long ago have been forced into a semi-existence of servitude in the global economy - the result of which would be a society far poorer and more unjust...

All socialist and progressive countries have good relations with DPRK and support it in its life-or-death struggle against the imperialist world system led by the US. You should too. Oppose sanctions, oppose threats, oppose demonisation, support sovereignty, support peace.