https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chollima_Movement
Citation #2 points to a book that collates many sources. Here’s what it has to say:
Wikipedia is just a collection of opinions laundered by loosely-relevant citations appearing next to them (or in this case, completely irrelevant ones).
How dare you already know more on the topic than the one book I read that told me dprk evil no food
shrug
This is where every leftist/liberal conversation tends to break down. At some point, you’re going to say “Yeah, but what about…” or dismiss a source as nakedly embellished/untrue. And then the real argument devolves into “Who do you trust to do the leg work on primary sources?”
That’s where the real divide emerges.
It pretty much always comes down to this, and because of the century of red scare that preceded us we are always on the disadvantaged side regarding the amount of good truthful sources that are in a language you can understand.
They can always pull the “goverment lies” card but when we do they scuff at us because we’re apparently mindwashed by the USSR or some local communist org