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9 Jan, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Trump’s ‘America First’
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_F…
"An America First National Security Strategy is based on American principles, a clear-eyed assessment of U.S. interests, and a determination to tackle the challenges that we face. It is a strategy of principled realism that is
2/"guided by outcomes, not ideology."

“America First refers to a policy stance in the United States coined by progressive, internationalist president Woodrow Wilson that generally emphasizes nationalism and non-interventionism…

“Trump…”agreed with a suggestion that his ideas
3/"might be summed up as 'America First'." Since that time the Trump campaign, and subsequently the Trump Administration, made 'America First' the cornerstone of Trump's foreign policy. The administration even branded its 2017 National Security Strategy of the United States of
4/"America as "an America First National Security Strategy". The introduction to that document reads "This National Security Strategy puts America first. An America First National Security Strategy is based on American principles, a clear-eyed assessment of U.S. interests, and a
5/"determination to tackle the challenges that we face. It is a strategy of principled realism that is guided by outcomes, not ideology."
6/AMERICA FIRST: America's 45th First Family: Donald & Melania Trump via
@YouTube
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11 Jan
Is DPRK's latest missile launch 'destabilizing actions' or 'strengthening national defense'? It's the latter. This is the result of the US holding ☮️hostage demanding DPRK's nukes as ransom.

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile, second in a week aje.io/cn5mgz
2/We have to promote peace, reduce tensions & improve relations w/ the DPRK. Frank Aum shows that maximum pressure is inherently hostile, and DPRK has made clear that the US's "hostile policy" has to change before it will sit to talk. That's the name of
3/the game. If the US's position is: "That's not the game we're playing. You do as we say and fully denuclearize before we lift sanctions", the DPRK will say, "F*** you US", hunker down under sanctions and launch more missiles. That the US & allies are utterly blind to the
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9 Jan
The Real DPRK
What is the Juche ideology?
youngpioneertours.com/what-is-juche-…
"If you were to ask a Korean, they would tell you that they follow what is Juche, political theory and philosophy unique to Korea and first conceptualized by president Kim Il-Sung.
2/"It certainly has its roots in traditional Marxism (the Workers Party of Korea began as the Communist Party of Korea) but it has since embraced what it considers an entirely unique philosophy.

The word itself is controversially translated. Koreans do not translate it into an
3/"English equivalent in their writings, though attempts have been made by foreign observers to draw meaning from the word. Most often, the ideology is described as meaning ‘self-reliance’ in reference to the Korean socialist model of opposing foreign influence in their affairs,
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9 Jan
Meritocracy Basics:
meritocracy:
government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability."progress towards meritocracy was slow"
◦a society governed by meritocracy
◦a ruling or influential class of educated or skilled people.
2/"Meritocracy (merit, from Latin mereō, and -cracy, from Ancient Greek κράτος kratos 'strength, power') is a political system in which economic goods and/or political power are vested in individual people on the basis of talent, effort, and achievement,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocra…
3/"rather than wealth or social class."
On the flip side of the coin you have the:
Myth of meritocracy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_m…
"Myth of meritocracy is a phrase arguing that meritocracy, or achieving upward social mobility through one's own merits regardless of one's social
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9 Jan
The World is the domain of Students:
Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies
gettyimages.com/detail/news-ph…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang…
“The Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies is a five-year university in Pyongyang, North Korea, specializing in language education…
2/"The university has separate colleges for students of English, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese; the so-called "Ethnic Languages College" offers instruction in a further 18 languages, including French, Spanish, Arabic, Thai, Urdu, Khmer, and, as of July 2007, Polish and Italian."
3/Two minutes in a day of being a student at:
Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies 3 via
@YouTube
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9 Jan
The North Koreans are masters at political satire where truth & reality are depicted in a political cartoon.
nknews.org/2022/01/north-…
There’s a reason why DPRK is targeting Yoon Suk-yeol of the People Power Party who’s running to become South Korea’s next president. The People
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3/commentary on the planet than what DPRK's professional satirists (who I'm sure graduated U w/ an advanced degree in politics) produce. The above 👆 cartoon broken down:
[Image: Uriminzokkiri, Nov. 20, 2021 | A satirical cartoon from North Korea’s external-facing media
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8 Jan
@ColinZwirko You have a “duty to report the operations of North Korean state media companies, esp when they're obfuscating connections to central propaganda authorities on social media”? So you rat out Un A’s & Jin Hui’s Vlogs to US social media? Totally uncool. Such censorship denies us -
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@ColinZwirko denigrates DPRK in Western media that has caused the WPK to take the proactive position of combatting it by presenting slices of DPRK life that reflects real North Korean people, lifestyles and ideological socialist messaging as well. We don’t need to be told “DPRK socialism is
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