[thecabal]

So it’s the ROK’s fault that NK is an impoverished Commie hellhole?

[joey703]

How you all been?

[Zhang Fei]

Depends on what’s meant by purer. As I understand it (thanks to the Far Outliers blog), North Korean is characterized by scads of Sinicisms. To the extent that using Chinese loan words/character combos (as opposed to Western loan words) is pure, North Korean is purer.