when you, as a centerpiece of the government, want to quickly shut down any signs of dissension, the easiest thing to do is to bank on peoples' preconceived prejudices (in this case, the anger of skoreans towards the nk gov) as justification for violence. also, iirc, the sk government at the time was pretty fascist so it's not like there was anyone to persecute them
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so people are guessing the character is a nk spy???
i think the issue is that if the character, a supposed protester, is revealed to actually be a nk spy (which he is), that immediately validates the justification the sk government had in order to get away with brutalizing citizens. by having a key character legitimize the anti-communist propaganda the government had been hiding behind, you're fundamentally giving credence to violence and torture the protesters went through. idk if i'm explaining this well, but atm, the drama is kind of an offshoot of the red scare propaganda in sk in the 1970/80s.
