They both have a bit in common. They’re both communist Asian states that the US went to war with during the Cold War and did not win. But the messaging regarding the two states is a lot different. DPRK is treated like the worst dictatorship ever, that kills you and your family for even thinking that the Kims are less than gods, whilst also starving. But Vietnam, they say… nothing.
Why isn’t Vietnam demonized like DPRK?
Or a leftcom. Browse a leftcom forum and take a shot every time one of them references Bordiga’s Dialogue with Stalin to make some quippy remark about socialist commodity production. You’ll have cirrhosis of the liver in a half hour.