They both have a bit in common. They’re both communist Asian states that the US went to war with during the Cold War and did not win. But the messaging regarding the two states is a lot different. DPRK is treated like the worst dictatorship ever, that kills you and your family for even thinking that the Kims are less than gods, whilst also starving. But Vietnam, they say… nothing.
Why isn’t Vietnam demonized like DPRK?
Well thank God some presumably white dude on an English-speaking website is here to explain to The Savage Asian what their opinions are supposed to be.
I’m Arab and I’m repeating the position of the DPRK, which I admire greatly for their principles. The two nations are a stark black-and-white example of the dangers of revisionism and working alongside imperialists
Being Arab does not preclude you from being profoundly ignorant of the 100,000 dead Vietnamese troops of the third Indochina war. It does not Grant you special insight into a regional conflict that only ended in 1991.
To call the country pathetic because they do not align with your simplistic prescriptions is chauvinist. You can quote the dprk, and I could just as easily dig up Soviet quotes. The fact remains that the only people in a position to criticize Vietnamese foreign policy, or Chinese economic policy, are the citizens within those socialist States.
To assume that you, from thousands of miles away, have the right to sit in judgment of an actually existing socialist state, is at best arrogant.
So goes internationalist anti-imperialism into the grave of squabbling nations