By the grace of god

I’m not European.

Oh you’re a troll. Fuck. I can’t believe I fell for the bait. Honestly hats off to you genuinely impressive. Honestly if you didn’t go full mask off alternate reality deranged I might not have realised. Very impressive work.

The interference by Russia in the last three elections is well-established by EVERY American intelligence agency, as well as the intelligence agencies of every one of our allies

Groups famous for telling the truth about their enemies.

a traitor at worst

Being a traitor against a genocidal empire is good actually

Russia has already become what they want to to do to America, and then everywhere else.

What Russia is today was largely imposed upon them by your beloved EuroAmerikan empire.

You say billionaires, I say Russians, but they are the same thing.

Holy chauvinism.

These people aren’t really politicians, trying to take their country in a specific political direction, no matter how misguided they may be. They don’t care about politics, they are CRIMINALS.

I take it back this is the holy chauvinism. Also ironic an American talking about other countries having criminal politicians.

Sociopathic Oligarchs, aka organized crime billionaires, managed to take over Russia

Holy passive voice. “Managed”. You mean were boosted to power during shock therapy as the former USSR was looted by the EuroAmerikans

You are fucking deranged I can’t wait to piss on the grave of the EuroAmerikan empire and all of its bootlickers.

Further supported by how Pendleton was one of those “leftists” who spent the whole 2024 election shitting on Harris, helping pave the way to Trump 2.

I don’t know or care about anyone else you mentioned to this point but this is fucking silly blueMAGA nonsense. Harris lost because she refused to distance herself from an active genocide and spent her entire run courting republicans and ignoring the left who then proceeded to not vote for the genocide enabler.

If you wish to continue to troll I think we should end this here. Citizens of the DPRK are allowed to travel (just not defect to a country they are at war with) what stops them is visa refusals due to UN sanctions. The US and USSR were never at war that’s why it was the cold war. India and Pakistan have normalcy as core parts of their ceasefire terms from the most recent scuffle (which never did escalate to all our war). Funny you bring up Iran who the US never declared war on but do you know where they aren’t allowed travel by the American government, the DPRK because they are at war with them. Please educate yourself and grow up trolling is unbecoming once you mature past 12.

First off no. That was not the core question. You said:

Take, for example, the claim that North Koreans are permitted to leave the country.

The answer is yes they are permitted. Despite how you attempt to twist what the law says and what we were talking about to dodge this fact.

Secondly obviously you can’t move to a hostile power during wartime that’s called defecting. No country on Earth currently or has ever allowed that.

Are you trolling?

That’s a disgustingly bad faith interpretation of what is said and is patently false. They have laws surrounding surrender that are inline with international norms same with defection and espionage none of these apply to leaving legally as you would know if you went to university in China plenty of non 30 year olds learning there. Citizens of the DPRK are permitted to travel by the government it’s the UN sanctions stopping them travelling beyond China and Russia.

I don’t see any reason to believe it wouldn’t also continue into the reserve period or even after

Because surrender has a specific meaning that requires the person in question be an active combatant. The law applies to citizens as it cover this but also espionage and defection which do not require this caveat.

No the petty bourgeoisie often do hire workers to supplement their own labour. The bourgeoisie own the major means of production and live by extracting surplus value from wage labor, they do not need to work themselves. Petty bourgeoisie own small-scale means of production (a shop, a workshop, a plot of land) and still rely on their own labor, however often employing workers to supplement their labour.

In periods of socialist momentum, the petty bourgeoisie frequently become the most zealous allies of reaction because their precarious ownership of small-scale means of production places them in direct fear of expropriation and descent into the proletariat. Unlike the bourgeoisie, who may calculate accommodation with a rising revolutionary order, the petty bourgeois sees their individual livelihood, status, and slim hope of advancement threatened by collective transformation; this material anxiety drives them to support reactionary and often fascist forces that promise to defend private property and social “order” against the working class. Their reaction is not an ideological accident but class instinct: when the choice appears to be between losing their small capital or joining the stable exploiters, many choose reaction striving to join the exploiters.

No reserves are not active combatants unless called upon just like in every country that has reservese (I can’t think of one that doesn’t). And even if it did the law itself as written is perfectly inline with international norms the fact they have universal conscription or a possible large reserve force doesn’t change that.

This isn’t relevant anyway the fact is the laws you posted are seemingly entirely normal laws that are common around the world, and you were wrong that they aren’t allowed to travel abroad by the government.

Universal conscription doesn’t mean what you seem to think it means. It’s simply a mandatory service term, not permanent combatant status. Much like in the ROK, Thailand, etc., eligible citizens serve a set period then return to civilian life, they aren’t subject to surrender laws before or after their term.

Surrender specifically is a combatant concept (defecting and espionage are not), non-combatants don’t surrender under military law, they migrate or seek asylum. E.g. to surrender you must be a combatant in this case an active service member.

No that’s not at all what I said.

I know you didn’t ask but 3 and 4 seem normal to me defecting during wartime and espionage are punished everywhere on Earth for a reason it makes them no better or worse than any other country.

As for surrender I have a feeling it’s a purposely unflattering translation whose real meaning is likely more inline with international norms such as

Article 99 of the UCMJ

Section 2 of the Armed Forces Act 2006

Section 74 of the National Defence Act

Section 15 of the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982

Section 34 of the Army Act 1950

and so on.

Take, for example, the claim that North Koreans are permitted to leave the country.

They absolutely are. I met more than one during my many years in university.

betraying the State and escaping

You very clearly misread this. It’s a crime to commit treason and then escape. AND. “escaping” to another country is not a crime.

While generally true that people rarely argue from the position of being a freethinker as a vocal core of their argument. What is not rare, however, is the habit of many calling anyone who points out that English sphere narratives about the DPRK are manufactured nonsense brainwashed. To label someone brainwashed on a given issue rests on the presupposition that you yourself are not. It assumes you operate as a free thinker. This posture persists even while their views align almost entirely with propaganda generated and circulated by the imperialist hegemon against an ideological enemy they remain at war with. Claiming intellectual immunity while repeating hegemonic talking points with little to no evidence (The core of the joke.).

Typical chauvinist

Why can’t you people just vouch for Scandinavian democratic socialism? It’s clearly the only thing that’s working in this fucked world.

Probably because they fund their social democracy through pillaging the third world. Or the fact it does nothing to address the root issues of modern society (imperialism and the contradictions of capital). Among other issues.