It would be great to have the complete unit of measure displayed here. It's suicides per 100k capita. Does not change the relative proportions, but is needed for the full picture.
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China is just bribing people to continue living by providing material improvements to their quality of life. That's cheating π€
Genuine question, is North Korea considered a monarchy (or monarcho-socialist), considering the Kim family has ruled it uncontested for generations? I know that a lot of stuff you read about North Korea in mainstream news is misinformation/propaganda so I'm curious
It is not a monarchy. The Kims served all kinds of different positions. In fact the position of the president was abolished and split into 3 different posts to deconcentrate power when Kim Il Sung died (hence he's called the eternal president).
The highest organ of state power in DPRK is the Supreme People's Assembly (over 600 members) which is elected for five year terms in universal and secret ballot, and it is the body which in general appoints all other individial posts. So Kim Jong Un is for example appointed as the Chairman of the State Affairs Commission whereas the Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly is Pak Thae Song.
Kim Jong Un is also the General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea, but that's not a State Organ.
The title of the "Leader" you might have heard so much is mostly a customary one and what it entails is a lot of inspecting of construction sites and workplaces and giving suggestions on how the design can be improved to serve the people better.
Most often he is referred to simply as Comrade Kim Jong Un by the state media.
Is it more like nepotism in favor of the Kim family then? Or do they genuinely earn these positions? How is General Secretary of the WPK not a state organ if the WPK is the leading and only party in the DPRK?
The WPK is not the only party in Korea, there's also Chondoist Chongu Party and Korean Social Democratic Party, you can also be elected a representative without party association.
All elected positions are subject to recall and that right is regularly exercised, being a member of Kim family certainly does not give you immunity to that.
On the more philosophical questions, I can recommend Roland Boer's Socialism in Power, specifically Chapter 7 talks about Korea.
Imo it is just a monarchy with a red coat of paint, complete with castes and borderline feudalism. Having said that I do think NK would likely chill out quite a bit if it was left alone to its own devices.
complete with castes and borderline feudalism
Just making shit up whole cloth
TIL China has lower suicide rates than nearly all other developed countries. Honestly thought they'd be higher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
That is a damn awesome result in just 30 years.
In the 90s it was 3 times as much, so the change is incredible.
It is also understandable how they succeeded in that - majority of suicides were young women in rural hukou. With urbanization progress, improvements to standard of living, with having options, just young women suicides dropped 90% (source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6775931/).
You dummy, the reason people donβt commit suicide in aUThOriTAiaN StAtEs is because the government would murder them for it.
When you commit suicide there they just call in juche necromancer, resurrect you, give you a poetry book and armed guard yell at you "START WRITING" all the time.
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One of those posts where people who know nothing but have opinions they must speak come together to enlighten the poor tankies. Can we at least drop the white saviour mentality this time guys?
Impossible.
Inb4 "no but they're commies so they must be lying"
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