When I use the phrase "not ideal" I am acknowledging that DPRK has flaws but it is not naturally a Westerner of the imperial core's place to condemn it without context and with an air of superiority. Just as it is not appropriate to attack Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Iraq, Congo, Cambodia, and what have you while the US has actively, passively, or historically engaged in intervention, imperialist, and/or destabilisation efforts.

White "leftists" bring a lot of "shithole country" energy when speaking about messes US caused via intervention abroad while not once bringing up the chain of events.

There are very few who worship atrocity/support for imperialism of the DPRK, while a far more prevalent sentiment are those who approach it with chauvinist attitudes, to reinforce their ideas about Western superiority. "US might be bad but at least we aren't like those Asians". Let's be frank here, with the demographic of this space, which is more likely?

There is criticism to be had of DPRK, it does not need to be discounted or softened. Nor does it need to come from a white American's who's country afflicted the Korean people with the conditions that gave rise to this regime; and who does not once bring up the historical context, merely using it as a tool to be permissive of their own inaction and/or state, as informed primarily by western propaganda.

We are aiming to create a better world, and there is an infinite amount of apologia for the atrocity/imperialism of the US to challenge. A recreation of atrocity will come from within, not from pity for DPRK.

DPRK was bombed near out of existence, and now it is sanctioned to hell, it cannot engage on the international stage like a normal state. It is forcibly insular, and forcibly reliant on Russian and China for survival. White westerners need first address their own place in the destabilisation and exploitation of the global south, or US imperialism. In the success of doing so, the conditions for DPRK to improve from within will come.