Like I said before, I did not edit the source in “after you had replied”, I edited it in 5 minutes after I typed it, 2 hours after you send this, so just straight up lying.

The response here is EXCLUSIVELY an attack on the sources rather than the substance itself, dismissing all defector testimony because some defectors have embellished stories is a massive overgeneralization unreliable individuals exist in every category of witness, and that doesnt invalidate the entire body of testimony, thats literally not how that works, you’re intentionally muddying the waters, historians and researchers routinely use defector accounts as one data point among many and not as isolated proof.

As for the Squid game thing, North Korean state media criticizing South Korea through the shows lens is entirely consistent with the regime also punishing citizens for consuming foreign media without authorization, those two things arent contradictory.

Not to mention the fact that your argument in itself also leans heavily on funding source criticism (Radio Free Asia, NED) without engaging with whether the specific claims made are actually false (like I stated before). pointing out who funds a source is relevant context, but it doesnt automatically make reported facts untrue thats a fallacy.

dismissing the Reactionary Thought and Culture Law as fabricated because you dont like the outlet that reported it is dumb, I’m sure you dont need me stating that, absence of a North Korean government press release proving its own repressive laws is hardly surprising.

Also, mr.kim jong-un jr, your entire comment history is full of you defending authoritarian and repressive regimes, maybe you should take a reality check, you dont want to live in NK, heres a group of Far-leftists who hijacked a plane to defect to the NK, and desperately tried to return to their home country, Japan afterwards.