to quote a favored line, "often when you guess at other's motives, you reveal your own"

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you couldn't possibly know Klingner's personal or institutional motives re NK. you're applying a cartoon villain narrative to the US position to justify your worldview of being an iconoclast intellectual warrior against the United States, the status quo against which a Gen Z middle class European can charge again to satisfy their idle comfort when they aren't busy playing videogames. this bizarre fetishization of NK and demonization of anything that goes against NK policy (e.g. a CIA officer that has more internal knowledge of North Korea than anyone else outside North Korea due to his authority of access to every HUMINT asset ever in the WPK, and most of the SIGINT) is just a backdrop witch which you can build your self-satisfying fiction to feed your contrarian emotions. have you considered why you are doing this? do you really think you are building a better future for Koreans by cherry picking "well actually NK was good in 1958" arguments on the internet with a bunch of other Westerners or lecturing Koreans on history they are well acquainted with? or are you just charging at windmills and shitposting because you are bored at a fundamental level?