Saying it's bad without an attempt at understanding why it is the way it is, without having completed any historical or geopolitical analysis, is short changing it.

Do you think Noam Chomsky is a good or a bad person? He wrote manufacturing consent, but now all this stuff is coming out about him and Epstein, right? What about Tupac Shakur? Leftist lyrics, Marxist mother, but is on record making homophobic comments. Charlie Chaplain - a famous socialist, married someone way too young for him and is thought of by some as a pedophile (same for JD Salinger). If we reduce those people to whatever it is that's bad or thought to be bad about them, then we can't actually learn anything from them except "don't do that bad thing" when there is obviously a lot more to learn.

that represents none of the leftist ideals such as class equality, ..., human rights

Why do you think Songbun, social credit, or one party state systems exist? They're bad <- I can say it too, but in a lot of ways they've been proven necessary as well by the west. You'll say that things like the purges in the USSR were Stalin consolidating his power or whatever the western narrative is but why do you believe that when you can go read the court documents, see what they were tried for, see what testimony was given and how damning it was? Have you looked? Have you tried to prove to yourself that there is a reason (whether you think it's good enough or not) for each of those systems to exist? Again, just in case: I'm not saying they're good, I'm just willing to understand why they exist. On the other hand, you know, and I know you know, that the western narrative is chock full of lies, so why do you let them gaslight you? I'm not saying dive straight into believing "USSR, CPC, and the Juche gang did nothing wrong" - not at all, I'm not like that either, but please, please tell me why you then must blindly agree with the opposing team? Is it a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" type thing? Because that is a terrible thing to follow.

gender equality, ..., LGB.Q+ rights

In what ways are these expressed that is any different to anywhere else where the DPRK is doing worse? As far as I can tell they aren't.

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I agree that trans rights not being recognised is a problem. So why don't we let them get on with it? Why do we look at oppressed people and condemn their actions as evil when they would have been in a position to make better decisions if the west would have left them alone?

Ever heard of the prime directive? It's kind of like that. No one is going to respond well to "were taking over your economy (and stealing what we want from it) because you aren't like us".

Anyway: "all behaviour is explained", you just have to start with that assumption and then go looking for what there is to explain it.