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i hate to break it you, but Kim Jong Un is the ONLY person in NK with internet access so you're either getting an artist from South Korea or other or he's a former NK who made it to a Western country.
Not completely true, the vast majority of those who do get access to the Internet (as opposed to the intranet Kwangmyong) are either in the elite or the military elite. About 4% of the population has access to it, but even then, it’s heavily censored by the national government as you’d expect. In any case, Sinuiju, being very close to China, does make for a relatively comfortable place to start off for trade & ideas. As you might guess, the artist I refer to does live there, & is stationed somewhere in the fields now on his 8th year of military service in which he began since age 16 (the typical age for the beginning is 17) [17 also being the age of majority). As such, he still needs to take great care not to post any NSFW work, so none of his works are such. I hope you have a DA account, because I think he might like to share some cultural bits from his perspective.
Well I didn't know that. but yeah 4% and heavily censored does sound more accurate. God I hope Kim is not into the MLP fandom. Unlike Trump, we don't want that kind of association in our community. And i would have nothing personal against the NK people accept their biggest pastime is reportedly daydreaming about killing me and my family. So you'll forgive my lack of interest in their culture. But if I'm mistaken I apologize on behalf of your friend. Only negative stuff makes it to the US.
Well to put it bluntly, how the average NK people there are living doesn’t seem too far off from how most Japanese were living during the Imperial times, which regrettably didn’t even know what was happening outside of their lands. Much of their lives, from the divine leader worship & fervour to the edging on starvation & desperation, much resemble how many NK folks (including soldiers) are facing these & are often weakened or even dead from hunger.