We live in a world where Palestine is being bombarded by zionist missiles 24 hours a day, and then liberals come on the internet and say that all the people need is a people’s militia and anything else is authoritarian. Even when you bring up the threat of Israel, America, it’s all the same. Just a people’s militia is what every nation in the world needs. If only the people of Korea had a people’s militia when America and Japan were decimating their country’s population through genocide. If only the Palestinians had a people’s militia during the formation of the occupation taking up most of its land.
If these people really built the society they wanted, it would be invaded or destroyed in a few years like revolutionary catalonia or the free state in Ukraine. The paris commune lasted 64 days, that’s not enough time to build socialism. If you want a country to exist in this bourgeois dominated world, you need to defend it and you need to be armed to the teeth to do it.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is actually the perfect model of socialism because reactionary forces cannot invade or easily work against a nuclear power. Everybody thinks that Korea is bad because it’s a “Dictatorship”. To the Korean person living in the DPRK constantly under the threat of genocide or having their lives ruined by becoming part of the southern puppet regime, they would see the militarization of the country as the better alternative to genocide or enslavement. Despite the impression liberals have of their country, it is extremely reasonable and pleasant to live in. The reason they have issues is because they think that Korean people are just brainwashed and they need to personally go in to become a white savior and teach them the glory of capitalism. They literally ask their tour guides why they don’t abandon communism and unify with the south. They aren’t going to argue, but they’re probably thinking “Why does this westerner want us all to live under landlords in a regime that is basically a puppet of the United States?” Liberals just don’t realize the immense amount of suffering unification under South Korean systems would cause for the people in Korea who would have no civil, no food, and not even a place to sleep. If a person does not understand or does not care about why the DPRK needs to defend itself, they are probably the same kind of person that their country that their person needs to be defended from.
Don’t set yourself up to fail if you truly intend to dismantle the regime of the country in which you live. Political power is upheld through physical force, and failure to defend the revolution is as good as death for you, your comrades, and even your people. It may be authoritarian, but authoritarianism is better than dying or being tortured by the CIA. I’m an authoritarian because I don’t want to die and I want to have a future. Authoritarianism and militarism is how you build a society safe from American drones, Israeli missiles, or Japanese warships.
Does anybody even respect or fear DPRK's military or nuclear capabilities? In my country, we think of it as a joke. Only that they are protected under the wing of China is the reason they are left alone.
The entire world is hostile to that country, so if their military was not working as a deterrent, they would not be sovereign. Even China is not as good as international aid as the USSR was during its time and does not help international socialist movements as much as it could.