Supporting North Korea?

A friend who did a marathon in North Korea was criticized for going there and supporting a despicable regime. My answer in his defense:

    Perhaps apart from a handful of countries which might be considered "innocent", there really is no country in the world who has not had atrocities, grave wrongs in its past or present. Who talks about the countries drilling our world? Who talks about the ones hosting the global giants exploiting the world for profit? Who talks about the countries producing and selling arms? I mean some do, but too few.

North Korea is on the agenda because we are looking from “our” side. What travelling the world and reading/talking/thinking has taught me is that there is at least some good side to things we see labelled as bad. I have difficulty in understanding how the US can be hailed as a dreamland when there are so many problems which do not exist in many "backwards" countries. Italy is a pothole country, sorry to say not much better than the shithole ones in many ways.
It's all a matter of perspective and nothing is really so black and white when it comes to the political agenda. There is always propaganda and much we don't know of.

As for what Ryan did, I think it's a great experience. We all share this world, so why not run the same tracks with other fellow human beings? I currently live in Italy, pay the government taxes; I am obliged to support them, otherwise I'd go to jail; but they don't have my consent or approval on anything. I exist in this world, I travel and shop and do other things, none of which is a testimony of my support of the system; it's only a simple fact of existence. This is what it is, the world which I'm born into. I do what I can to change it. Until it changes, I will be living under the conditions as much as I can stand, or isolate myself further and further. So, with or without our support, the wheels of politics keep turning... I'd say we need to remove our support from our end first, before directing criticism to other countries.

Stick the small needle to yourself first, then stick the big one to the other.

Forget about North Korea, stop supporting your country first! Stop supporting the big lies we are fed, stop supporting the political status-quo. Stop supporting the army of imbeciles with your tax monies.

Let's Become the mountain, let's rock the boat and Change the Unacceptable.