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Originally Posted by GirlySports
The mourning is real.
North Koreans are happy because they don't know any better and they are force-fed propaganda that they are the best in the world and everyone is the enemy.
The Berlin Wall example is good, East Germans being shocked what was in the West. Same thing in Vietnam when Saigon fell in 1975. North Vietnamese had been told that the South was being pillaged by the American and it was their jobs to save them. Once unified, they brought their old stoves, rusty pots and pans and broken mattress to donate to the South only to discover the South already had tvs and lazyboys!
The North Koreans probably think those South workers are lying.
Example, in China I told people that in Calgary there are traffic lights that will stay red until it detects a car close to the crosswalk and then it will turn green.
They thought I was bullspitting.
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Every person I know who has visited North Korea has said to me that people look miserable there. One of my friends went there expecting to see people seeming to have pretty typical levels of happiness, but he too said that people there all just look miserable. I don't believe they are happy.