excuse me I was told we were a vassal state

This is Amnesty International, not Radio Free Asia.

The actual propaganda is China trying to convince you that North Korea isn’t a despotic authoritarian hellhole, because as their largest trading partner, why don’t they exert their influence to change that? Because any threat to Kim’s regime is a threat to the CCP. So they have to convince YOU that everything you read about North Korea is actually US propaganda lies.