I mean do they really think the charade fools anybody into thinking they are not a dictatorship?

Yes, they are Potemkin parties that are allowed to exist purely for show. None of them have ever voted against the ruling Workers' Party of Korea in all their history. (and every once in a while, they'd kill a few of these minor party members just to make sure no one gets too comfortable).

The articles for these parties literally refer to them being "awarded" their seats in the Congress.

"Political Parties"

Nope.

The same ploys seem to work in Russia and the USA to some extent.

-- China has entered the chat.

America has it's issues. We're no north Korea by any stretch, in some ways we worse, but there are citizens on the right that wish we were.

You really think the political situations between the DPRK and the US are remotely comparable?

😂

Do they actually kill them? What’s the point of it’s a show party and who would ever want to join it?

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You really think it is anything more than show?

🔫 You have been awarded a seat in the Korean Social Democratic Party. Your children have been relocated to the Glorious Capital. Please report to your office immediately.

Lol

In Russia yes, to a lesser extend. Putin allows the opposition.

The USA is different. Two right wing parties (yes, from a worlds' perspective the Democrats are right wing too. Even if they are not so far right as the Republicans). The system makes it "nearly" impossible for a third party to exist and to be effective.

It was the same in the Eastern Bloc under Stalinism...

Oh, there's someone out there who believes it, or chooses to allow themselves to be duped because they are a credulous tankie and the country has "Democratic" in the name and how could a nation of heroic socalism and Juche be anything but a worker's paradise and Lenin said everything works by Democratic Centralism.