How come North Korea is a low-trust society?

[Gog & Magog]

How did an ethnically homogenous dictatorship manage to fuck up so badly?

 

[Boldizar]

Anyone can report you

 

[Punished Derich]

Because they steal from each other a lot

 

[2mm and 99 others]

Totalitarian closed-border systems breed extreme envy, because people better positioned within the party or exceptionally trustworthy ones & their family members get to have premium and scarce (somewhere else completely common and abundant) things as a reward.

 

[Gangstalker #32194]

juche ideology is a combo of ww2 japanese nationalism and stalinist communism, keeping everyone on a nonstop war footing while constantly rooting out enemies from within hasn't done the people of the united states any favors over the past 20 years, and we're not nearly as isolated as the norks are

 

[Le b0wski]

Exactly who doesn't trust the North Korean leadership?

 

[donksmanSupreme42]

communism

 

[Achtung Bitter]

Banning the best haircut is unethical, so is preventing citizens from wearing the most practical pants. Result is obv.