i'm personally agnostic about the dprk itself. i think whether it's good or not is a value claim only people who live there can really make and information is too distorted to really figure out what is happening. i'm wary of what i've read of juche and i don't think bloodline leadership is signs of a good socialist democracy, but again i don't know enough.

also more importantly i think it's important for western leftists to just be anti-imperialist and support their right to defend themselves from us aggression.

you may like this podcast episode on how badly the media covers north korea. https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-02-the-north-korea-memory-hole