[shlewis]

Imo as a Korean speaker, the thing about North Korean Korean is that it sounds much more aggressive, from the words to the general tone. They’re also usually much more direct, and in a lot of North Korean defector stories I’ve read, that has been a common pain point for them.

[t-3]

Is that something new (divergence since the political split), or an older regional dialect thing that is now more obvious due to the political situation?

[orangeboats]

Communist governments often prefer to use expressions that are more down-to-earth and colloquial, due to their populist root.

It could be related to that, or just a matter of North-South dialectal differences I guess.