I've been growing fascinated with North Korea lately, watching old movies, listening to classic and new North Korean pop music, and realizing more and more that in mass culture terms anyway, weird generational personality cult aside, they are very similar to the late Soviet Russian style. Yet all we ever see on news reports is missiles driving down the central ave in Pyongyang. If Americans could see even five minutes of something like
this, they could sneer or think up some clever insult, but at least they would realize just a little that there is life somewhere out there that doesn't match their preconceived notions.
Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I really hope China and Russia don't betray the North Koreans for the sake of some 'beautiful cake', and that the hawks in the deep state in Washington don't push Trump to move beyond his tough guy rhetoric.
The most ironic thing here is that North Korea isn't exporting its ideology anywhere, by force or otherwise. They're literally perhaps the most closed up country in the world; god damnit USA, if you want to bomb someone, go bomb the fragging shit out of the Saudis and Qataris, who are literally exporting their fascistic, backwards ideology worldwide.