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Oh Welcome to the Empire Files podcast, I'm Abby Martin.

And I'm Mike Prysner.

North Korea is in the news for firing two ballistic missiles last week, the first such weapons

test in a year.

This is being painted as a dangerous provocation against its neighbors South Korea and Japan,

and of course, the United States.

The U.S. media is calling it the first major test for Biden because the empire must respond to this threat.

While the missile test itself is nothing out of the ordinary, these events always revive a huge

campaign of demonization against North Korea. Because the DPRK is such a closed-off society,

little information is really known about it, and reports are difficult

to verify, which is why Western media can fabricate almost anything about the North Korean government

and society, and people will, for the most part, believe it. It is widely known that North Korea

has an undemocratic political system, where you cannot challenge the rule of the

Communist Party. This is the main point of focus for the U.S. Empire, despite the fact that they

have close relationships with many countries with far more extreme holds on political power

and repression. What upsets the U.S. the most is North Korea's economic and social system, and it's important to differentiate

between these two. The corporate media and political establishment want you to think that

North Korea is a dystopian hellhole where everyone is starving and enslaved. Any photos or

videos depicting happiness are dismissed as fake and staged propaganda. But they don't

want Americans to go see for themselves, which is why they've banned us from ever traveling

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