Yea yea I know, not all contradictions imply a fundamental error.
This line is currently in popular usage by online liberals who are forced to work through their 
as China ascends, as DPRK approaches normalization, as Iran demonstrates its regional force, as Ukraine inevitably loses, as the US murders and still loses, as Sahel states inch toward sovereignty. These contradictions are becoming more striking and difficult to hand-wave. And in the first phase of this dissonance, the reflex is to allow the dissonance no matter how deafening.
physically impossible for the dprk to be worse than the united states, especially given how many of their issues stem from american policy and genocide. And none of those internal problems will resolve themselves while they’re under siege, so the only job of western leftists is to advocate for a lifting of sanctions and us forces out of the korean penninsula