
and your article says sometimes defectors exaggerate things for money or attention and also one guy recanted his story after the government sent him a video of his father saying he was lying (uh huh not suspicious at all) but if you discount all defectors because they’re defectors then you literally have no source of information but the north korean government and they have way more incentive and ability to lie
dumbegg is right that there’s not a lot of good sources of information about what life is like inside north korea, but remember that is because that’s how the north korean government wants it to be!! and the fact that they are able to limit the flow of information in and out so completely is a pretty clear sign of very harsh treatment of their population
Because amnesty international has definitely never been caught lying to protect western interests Oh wait they lied about the thing that helped start the Kuwait war, oh wait they refused to help South Africans fighting apartheid and slandered them, oh wait they fire people who criticize Israel too heavily…